Currently tracking 3 active AI roles, down 63% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $156k–$265k (avg $211k).
Mastercard currently has 16 active job listings related to artificial intelligence. The majority of these roles, 50%, are focused on serving infrastructure. Engineering is the primary function for these AI positions, with the United States being the top hiring country. Frequent technical tags include model serving, agent orchestration, and inference infrastructure, suggesting a focus on deploying and managing AI models. In the last 30 days, Mastercard has posted 23 new AI roles, representing a 667% increase from the previous 30-day period.
Mastercard currently has 11 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Senior Software Engineer (3), Foundry R&D Software Engineer II, Lead Software Engineer, Lead Technical Program Manager, Manager, Software Engineering. Most positions are in Engineering.
Mastercard's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (45%), serving infrastructure (36%), application (18%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Mastercard is hiring AI talent in: United States (7 roles), Ireland (3 roles), Singapore (1 role).
Job postings at Mastercard most frequently reference: model serving, inference infra, agent orchestration, rag, guardrails.
In the past 30 days, Mastercard has posted 5 new AI-related roles. That is a -79% change versus the prior 30 days (24 → 5).
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| Lead Site Reliability Engineer Lead Site Reliability Engineer responsible for ensuring the production readiness, stability, and health of Mastercard products. This role focuses on fostering developer ownership, implementing operational design, automation, capacity planning, and monitoring to build fault-tolerant, scalable, and resilient products. The team aims to shift left in the development process, proactively manage production, and mitigate risks while ensuring compliance. Key responsibilities include leading the full lifecycle of services, analyzing ITSM performance, defining production readiness standards, evolving monitoring frameworks, championing automation, driving CI/CD pipelines, leading incident response, and mentoring junior engineers. | — | 0 |
| Business Operations Site Reliability Engineer Mastercard is seeking a Business Operations Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the stability and health of their platform, focusing on production readiness, developer ownership, and operational excellence. The role involves engaging in the full lifecycle of services, from design to refinement, with a strong emphasis on automation, capacity planning, monitoring, and incident response. Key responsibilities include shifting left to proactively manage production, mitigating risks, and aligning operational needs with product and customer priorities. The ideal candidate will have experience in security and/or enterprise monitoring, strong UNIX/Linux and DevOps skills, and a systematic problem-solving approach, preferably with experience in the banking/payment industry. |
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| Senior Site Reliability Engineer Senior Site Reliability Engineer for the Xborder team, focusing on solving problems, implementing automation, and leveraging best practices to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of the platform. This role involves engaging in the full lifecycle of services, from design to operation, and embedding SRE principles into the delivery process. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineering Manager Mastercard's Xborder team is seeking a Site Reliability Engineering Manager to lead the SRE transformation, focusing on reliability, scalability, and production readiness of technology platforms. The role involves embedding operational excellence, driving automation, managing incident response, and developing a high-performing global team. Experience in financial services is preferred. | — | 0 |
| Senior Analytics Engineer Mastercard is seeking a Senior Analytics Engineer responsible for defining and maintaining data architecture, data maintenance, integration, and load processes. The role involves selecting and developing database technologies, optimizing SQL queries, ensuring database security, and providing technical assistance for database performance. Experience with AWS, Databricks, Python, Spark, and Lakehouse is required. | — | 0 |
| Technical Project Manager Mastercard is seeking a Technical Project Manager to oversee the successful and timely implementation of projects, manage stakeholder relationships, and mitigate project risks within the payments industry. | — | 0 |
| Director, Platform Engineering Director, Platform Engineering at Mastercard responsible for advancing infrastructure and platform automation strategy through innovation and problem-solving. This hands-on technical leadership role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining automation frameworks, platform services, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) capabilities for large-scale hybrid environments. Key responsibilities include engineering reusable automation patterns, enabling self-service infrastructure, and improving velocity across cloud and on-prem platforms, with a strong emphasis on tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, and CI/CD pipelines. | — | 0 |
| Automation Engineer The Junior Automation Engineer will support operational excellence efforts by designing, building, and maintaining automation solutions that reduce manual effort and improve service reliability across MC&O. This role focuses on identifying repetitive, high-friction operational processes and transforming them into scalable, reliable automated routines using lightweight tools and scripting. | — | 0 |
| Senior Platform Architect Mastercard is seeking a Senior Platform Architect to develop and own the architecture for on-premise compute, storage, and runtime products and services, including hardware standards. The role involves defining and leading the GPU and AI infrastructure strategy, establishing architecture standards, and influencing platform direction. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in large-scale compute and storage architectures, container platforms, and designing infrastructure for GPU-accelerated AI/ML workloads. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineering Manager Mastercard is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead complex, cross-department initiatives and drive the design, development, and delivery of high-quality, scalable software solutions. This role involves setting technical direction, influencing architectural decisions, and solving complex problems with broad organizational impact, balancing hands-on engineering with strategic leadership and collaboration. | — | 0 |
| Director, Linux Systems Administrator (SRE) Mastercard is seeking a Director of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to lead strategic initiatives for their VMware and Oracle Linux platforms. This role involves defining and executing the SRE roadmap, leading modernization efforts, championing automation, building and mentoring a high-impact SRE organization, and ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of distributed platforms. The Director will oversee infrastructure health, implement disaster recovery strategies, drive incident management, lead the adoption of Infrastructure-as-Code, architect observability solutions, and ensure infrastructure compliance with security and regulatory standards. | — | 0 |
| Senior Cloud Platform Engineer Mastercard is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to maintain, operate, and improve internal cloud platforms and supporting services. The role focuses on incident response, platform resiliency, architectural improvements, and automating repetitive processes. Success requires deep understanding of cloud/PaaS, strong automation/coding skills, and knowledge of CI/CD and IaC. | — | 0 |
| Senior Business Analyst Mastercard is seeking a Lead Business Analyst for the Build Factory team to translate complex business needs into system requirements, data models, and actionable insights. This role involves partnering with stakeholders, product owners, engineers, and data teams to define requirements, enable analytics and reporting, and drive data-informed decision-making. The analyst will design and deliver dashboards, analyze datasets, and act as a lead analyst setting standards. | — | 0 |
| Principal, Program Management Principal Technical Program Manager to drive customer experience strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. This role reports to a VP of Technical Program Management and plays a key part in driving technology modernization across Mastercard’s internal products and shared platforms. You’ll partner closely with infrastructure, platform, product, engineering, and regulatory teams to deliver large scale, business critical modernized regions that support essential payment services. | — | 0 |