Sr. Software Engineer (Performance Engineering)

Job Description

Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200 countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Sr. Software Engineer (Performance Engineering) Overview • Quality Engineering team within MasterCard is about creating an ecosystem to build a world beyond waiting for all delivery teams to help achieve time-to-market, quality excellence, and higher customer satisfaction within all verticals including core, emerging payments, and value-added services. • Unlike similar performance testing roles in other organizations, this position needs deep understanding of architecture stacks and performance patterns – in addition to performance tools and performance testing- to understand business requirements and help architect/fine-tune systems for better performance early in the development life cycle. • This position will drive holistic performance strategy, performance testing, analysis, tuning, and performance architecture for any/all key MasterCard business verticals and capabilities. Key questions: • Are you an experienced leader who is passionate about innovative technology – specifically performance engineering tools, performance profiling, web/mobile and database performance real-time monitoring, tools - and its potential to help create a world beyond cash? • Love being hands on and eager to demonstrate a clear path of services adoption to your partners with demos, presentations, and prototypes? • Do you have a motivation to drive Performance Test automation and self-service culture as a part of software delivery practices? • Can you scale your communication to articulate application performance metrics and issues starting from engineers to program managers to executives? Role • Provide technical recommendations for a holistic performance strategy covering environment, techniques, key SLA metrics; platform hardware analysis; scalability architecture for better performance; and performance profiling/troubleshooting techniques. • Mentor a team of performance engineers on test data and performance environment needs, and develop schedules for ongoing performance testing activities. • Partner with operations, product, and development teams to develop real-time performance dashboards and provide daily transparency of production application performance to stakeholders. • Develop and oversee performance strategies and approaches including creating performance metrics and ensuring all applications are performing to the agreed upon SLAs. • Define and implement best practices for end-to-end application performance management solutions including

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