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.
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 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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| Vice President, Enterprise Operations Mastercard is seeking a Vice President, Enterprise Operations to lead a 'Resilience React Team' focused on proactively addressing customer pain points and ensuring the operational resiliency of critical services. The role involves strategic project orchestration, cross-functional collaboration, data-driven decision making, stakeholder management, and team leadership within the context of the Mastercard payment ecosystem. | — | 0 |
| Senior Platform Engineer - Database Admin Senior Platform Engineer - Database Admin responsible for supporting and providing expertise to MasterCard's Database environments, including design, build, and maintenance of highly available, scalable, and efficient solutions. The role involves configuring new installations, reviewing existing ones, implementing backup strategies, performing upgrades and patching, developing and implementing data migration architectures, and providing production support. Key responsibilities include leading best practices, planning new strategies, and advancing knowledge in Oracle middleware, physical database tuning, SQL tuning, backup/recovery, PL/SQL, partitioning, and Oracle RAC. |
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| Vice President, Enterprise Operations Vice President of Enterprise Operations responsible for leading technology centers that support business partner processing needs, internal and external customer requirements, and managing 24x7 processing, data, and network availability across multi-platform data center environments. This role involves significant financial, organizational, and policy responsibilities, including managing multi-million dollar budgets and ensuring disaster recovery processes are in place. | — | 0 |
| Director, Platform Engineering Director of Platform Engineering to lead Mastercard’s next-generation WAN strategy through the global deployment of SD-WAN and transformation of the customer edge network. Accountable for driving scalable, secure, and resilient solutions across thousands of sites globally. Combines deep technical expertise with strong leadership, execution discipline, and a passion for building high-performing teams and future-ready platforms. Owns end-to-end strategy, planning, execution, and operational readiness of the global SD-WAN program, leading cross-functional engineering teams and partnering with operations, architecture, security, sourcing, and business units. Oversees platform standardization, site migrations, vendor integration, and alignment to global compliance and risk frameworks. | — | 0 |
| Manager, BizOps This role is for a Business Operations Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) focused on ensuring the stability, health, and reliability of Mastercard's production platforms and applications. The role involves fostering developer ownership, supporting the build phase with operational design, automation, capacity planning, and monitoring, and managing daily operations with a focus on triage, root cause analysis, and blameless post-mortems. The goal is to proactively manage production and change activities to maximize customer experience, increase value, and ensure compliance and risk mitigation. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer-TS Mastercard is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead a team focused on building and operating technology for next-generation payment applications in the real-time payments space. The role involves significant hands-on coding, technical leadership, and driving innovation in distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures within the fintech domain. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Quality Engineer Mastercard's Portfolio Intelligence team is seeking a Senior Software Quality Engineer to drive the quality of a transformational new platform for financial institutions, leveraging large data sets and providing actionable insights. This role involves designing and executing test plans for key full-stack features in a fast-paced, agile team, with work ranging from writing automated tests to ensuring analytical accuracy. | — | 0 |
| Principal, Platform Architect This role focuses on the architecture and design of infrastructure frameworks for applications, platforms, and systems within Mastercard, ensuring alignment with security, scalability, and availability standards. The primary deliverable is a Technical Architecture Document (TAD) or Reference Architecture Diagram (RAD). The role requires expertise in internet fundamentals, web servers, application servers, internet security, routing, resiliency, public/private cloud, and infrastructure automation. | — | 0 |
| Senior Technical Program Manager Mastercard's ONE Build Factory team is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead strategic infrastructure initiatives, focusing on scaling Availability Zones. This role involves end-to-end program execution, cross-functional collaboration, risk management, and process improvement within Agile and hybrid environments. Requires strong IT infrastructure understanding and experience with modern program management tools. | — | 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 |
| Director, Software Engineering Director of Engineering to lead platform transformation, drive engineering excellence, and scale global delivery for Mastercard's Xborder Services team. This role aligns technology strategy with business outcomes while building high-performing teams and delivering resilient, scalable platforms. | — | 0 |
| Principal, Software Engineering Principal Software Engineer for Mastercard's Authorization Decisioning team, responsible for leading technical initiatives, designing and delivering software solutions for a high-volume, global payments platform. Focuses on technical leadership, architectural design, and hands-on development within the financial services industry, ensuring compliance and scalability. | — | 0 |
| Lead Software engineer (Java Full stack Developer) Lead Software Engineer with full-stack Java development experience, focusing on designing, developing, and deploying secure, reliable, and scalable solutions for globally distributed customer-facing products within the fintech domain. The role involves mentoring junior team members and working with stakeholders in an agile environment. Experience with DWH concepts, large data processing, and cloud/DevOps architecture is desirable. Exposure to trending technologies like AI/ML and coding agents is a plus. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Software Engineer (Performance Engineering) This role focuses on performance engineering within Mastercard's Quality Engineering team. The engineer will be responsible for developing and implementing holistic performance strategies, conducting performance testing, analysis, and tuning across various business verticals. The role requires deep understanding of architecture stacks, performance patterns, and tools to optimize system performance early in the development lifecycle. Key responsibilities include mentoring a team, developing real-time performance dashboards, and defining best practices for application performance management, particularly in emerging technologies. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II responsible for programming, testing, implementation, documentation, maintenance and support of systems application software. Researches technical solutions for business needs and develops high quality, secure, scalable software solutions. Performs feasibility studies and analysis. Participates in on-call support. | — | 0 |
| Lead Software Engineer Lead Software Engineer at Mastercard, focusing on hands-on development, design, implementation, and delivery of software solutions using Agile principles. The role emphasizes writing high-quality, secure, modular, and testable code, leading engineering efforts, introducing new technologies, and guiding development staff. Responsibilities include contributing to all phases of the software lifecycle, owning team software, and maintaining deep knowledge of its characteristics and dependencies. Collaboration in a global environment and strong foundational computer science concepts are key. The role requires proficiency in modern programming languages (like Java), cloud technologies, micro-services, CI/CD, DevOps, and scalable, fault-tolerant platform design, with experience in migrating monolithic systems. Strong database knowledge and analytical skills are preferred. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer Lead the design and implementation of an Internal Developer Portal and Platform to improve developer experience, reduce toil, and drive automation across Mastercard. | — | 0 |
| Lead Software Engineer Lead Software Engineer at Mastercard, a global payments and technology company focused on building a sustainable digital economy. The role involves owning complex problems, writing and enhancing code, defining procedures, driving prioritization, automating software delivery, and ensuring seamless integration across services. Responsibilities include introducing new technologies, providing guidance, conducting interviews, and leading by example. Requires strong coding skills in multiple languages, understanding of secure coding standards, operating systems, design patterns, and system architecture, with a focus on high availability and efficient delivery. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Mastercard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Azure Platform Engineering team. The role involves implementing solutions to manage Azure infrastructure via code, improving the lifecycle of Azure platform services, and scaling systems sustainably through automation. Responsibilities include designing and developing scalable platform solutions, practicing incident response, and troubleshooting large-scale systems on the Azure platform. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Mastercard's Open Finance Analytics team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to drive product development. The role involves building high-quality, secure, scalable software solutions, partnering with Data Science and Product teams, and adhering to development best practices. The ideal candidate has a strong software engineering background, experience with REST services, SQL, Docker, and languages like Python or Golang, and is comfortable with common development tools and processes. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Software Engineering Seeking a visionary and results-driven Engineering Manager to lead a service group in Mastercard's critical Decision Management Platform for fraud detection. This role is pivotal in driving engineering excellence, scaling delivery capabilities, and fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement. The manager will align engineering strategy with business goals, mentor high-performing teams, and ensure the successful delivery of complex software solutions. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer || Software Engineer II at Mastercard Corporate Solutions, focusing on building a global B2B technology platform for payment solutions. The role involves full-stack development, including front-end and REST API/backend, adhering to Agile principles and emphasizing security, reliability, and performance. | — | 0 |
| Lead Service Management Engineer Lead IT Service Management Engineer responsible for supporting and maturing Incident Management practices, partnering with engineering teams and stakeholders to ensure ITSM processes are well-defined, adopted, and optimized. Analyzes incident lifecycle performance, develops metrics, and leads improvements to reduce Mean Time to Detect/Resolve (MTTD/MTTR) and enhance system reliability and cross-team collaboration. | — | 0 |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer Senior Site Reliability Engineer responsible for production readiness, stability, and health of Mastercard's platform. This role focuses on DevOps automation, CI/CD pipeline management, operational design, capacity planning, monitoring, and risk mitigation to ensure fault-tolerant and scalable products, aiming to shift left in the development lifecycle and maximize customer experience. | — | 0 |
| Senior Hardware Asset Management The Senior Hardware Asset Management role is responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle management of Mastercard’s hardware assets, ensuring accurate inventory, regulatory compliance, financial transparency, and operational efficiency across the enterprise. This role partners closely with Procurement, Technology, Field Services, Finance, Security, and regional operations teams to manage assets from planning and acquisition through deployment, refresh, and disposal, while maintaining Mastercard’s IT Asset Management (ITAM) standards and controls. | — | 0 |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer Mastercard is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure platform stability, health, and resilience for their products. This role involves fostering developer ownership, supporting operational design and automation, establishing standards, leading root cause analysis, and driving risk management and compliance. The engineer will also support the CI/CD pipeline, practice incident response, and optimize mean time to recover within a global team. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Mastercard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to modernize its ABU platform, focusing on secure communication of account changes for payments. The role involves designing, developing, testing, and maintaining backend services using Java, Spring, and GRPC, with a strong emphasis on domain-driven design, agile methodologies, and collaboration. Responsibilities include owning user stories, mentoring junior engineers, and ensuring adherence to quality standards and best practices in a cloud-native environment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Mastercard is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for their Core Payments organization, specifically the Clearing Team. The role involves developing software solutions for the MDS Batch Program, ensuring high performance and efficiency. Responsibilities include analyzing and creating solutions, testing, maintaining metrics reporting, proposing automation initiatives, and coordinating with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate will have experience with COBOL, CICS, JCL, Java Spring Boot, DB2 LUW, and batch/online testing, with a proactive mindset towards adopting AI-driven tools for automation. | — | 0 |
| Lead Software Engineer (Azure Platform Engineering) Lead Software Engineer on the Azure Platform Engineering team responsible for developing and managing Azure Platform capabilities for application development teams. This involves implementing infrastructure as code, improving the lifecycle of Azure services, and scaling systems sustainably through automation. | — | 0 |
| Director, Site Reliability Engineering Director, Site Reliability Engineering role at Mastercard focused on ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of applications and essential services. Responsibilities include production readiness, operational design, automation, capacity planning, monitoring, incident response, and compliance across environments. The role emphasizes developer ownership, proactive management, and risk mitigation within a fintech domain. | — | 0 |
| Commercial Data Integration Platform - Lead Developer Lead a team of developers to oversee the deployment, operation, and continuous enhancement of the Commercial Data Integration Platform (CDIP), ensuring alignment with organizational standards and data governance. The platform leverages Databricks to ingest and evaluate data, enabling a scalable pipeline for commercializing insights within Mastercard products. | — | 0 |
| Managing Consultant, Business Development – Fuel & Convenience Mastercard is seeking a Managing Consultant for Business Development within the Fuel & Convenience segment. This role focuses on driving growth of value-added services, managing client relationships, and coordinating with internal teams to achieve revenue objectives. The ideal candidate has a strong sales background, experience in solution-based selling, and the ability to build and monetize senior client relationships. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer role focused on building high-value, cloud-native applications, leading architectural design, and mentoring junior developers. Requires strong backend development skills (Java/Spring Boot, Python) and experience with microservice architecture, API design, and high-volume web services. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on end-to-end testing, planning, designing, and developing technical solutions, quality gating, automation strategy, and ensuring performance and scalability for applications and platforms within the fintech domain. The role involves working closely with development and QA teams, analyzing code review reports, and driving best practices for testing. | — | 0 |
| Lead Software Engineer Lead Software Engineer role at Mastercard focused on building cloud-native microservices and full-stack applications for the B2B financial space. Requires strong Java, PCF, and Angular skills, with experience in large-scale storage solutions and Agile methodologies. The role emphasizes collaboration, code quality, security, and adherence to Mastercard's engineering best practices. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Test Automation/Java Senior Software Engineer focused on test automation for the Mastercard Developers portal and related tools. Responsibilities include manual and automated testing (API, UI, integration) in Java, working closely with developers, and ensuring reliable releases through CI/CD integration. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - IOS Mastercard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their MDES team in Vadodara, India. The role involves developing microservices-based enterprise applications using Java J2EE and developing portals for customer care and end-users. The engineer will be responsible for coding high-quality, scalable, operable, and highly available applications, writing unit and integration tests, and providing task status and estimates. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with iOS technologies (Objective C, iOS SDK, Xcode, UI Development with UI kit/Swift UI/Combine Framework), integrating with REST APIs, writing unit tests, and using GIT within an Agile environment. Experience in the payments domain and knowledge of security concepts are desirable. | — | 0 |
| Lead Software Engineer - Java Backend Mastercard is seeking a Lead Software Engineer with 8-12 years of Java backend experience to join their Operations & Technology Fraud Products team. This role involves developing new capabilities for the Decision Management Platform, which processes billions of transactions monthly to combat fraud and validate cardholder identity. The platform is Java-based, message-oriented, and requires high performance and availability. The engineer will be responsible for the full software development lifecycle, including design, implementation, CI/CD, and mentoring junior team members. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Android Senior Software Engineer - Android role at Mastercard, focusing on developing microservices-based enterprise applications using Java J2EE and Android technologies. Responsibilities include coding, design, testing, and mentoring. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer, Software Engineering Principal Software Engineer to design, build, and operate Mastercard’s File Transfer platforms, which move critical data securely and reliably between Mastercard and its customers worldwide. This is a senior individual contributor role focused on complex platform problems and raising engineering standards. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II (Software Engineer in Test ) Software Engineer II (Software Engineer in Test) responsible for driving Quality Engineering best practices, collaborating with development teams to enhance software development processes, build high-quality software, and automate test and release processes. The role requires strong software development skills on par with software developers to build test automation and infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Treasury Services Principal Software Engineer for Treasury Services at Mastercard, focusing on modernizing data flows and leading the design and delivery of event-driven microservices for the Treasury Management System (TMS). The role involves architecting data integration pipelines, driving platform hardening, defining integration architecture, establishing eventing patterns, and ensuring compliance with financial reporting standards. Requires strong Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and microservices experience, with a proven track record in integrating vendor TMS systems and cross-organizational influence. | — | 0 |
| Senior Analyst - Technical (Data Quality Analyst)-2 Mastercard is seeking a Senior Analyst - Technical (Data Quality Analyst) to establish and maintain data quality rules, standards, and processes. This role involves conducting data profiling, collaborating with teams to resolve data issues, designing dashboards, and championing data governance best practices. The ideal candidate will have strong SQL skills, experience with data quality platforms, cloud environments, and data visualization tools, and will partner with the enterprise data governance team to ensure regulatory compliance. | — | 0 |
| Director Technical Program Management This is a Director of Technical Program Management role at Mastercard, focused on leading a team of TPMs and driving complex, high-impact initiatives across Data & Governance and Technology Operations. The role requires strong people leadership, program and portfolio management, strategic initiative enablement, and stakeholder engagement skills. It is not directly involved in AI/ML development but operates within a company that utilizes AI/ML. | — | 0 |
| Lead Software Engineer Lead Software Engineer for Mastercard's Decision Management Platform, focusing on developing high-performance, high-volume solutions for fraud detection and cardholder identity validation. The role involves full SDLC ownership, team mentorship, and collaboration across global teams, utilizing Java and related technologies in an Agile environment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - CS Mastercard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Pune, India, to be responsible for the analysis, design, development, and delivery of software solutions. This role involves defining requirements, developing and testing applications, and providing leadership and mentoring to team members. The engineer will manage the full systems development lifecycle, including maintenance, incident management, and on-call support, while also researching new technologies and participating in Proofs of Concept. The position requires a broad understanding of Software Engineering concepts and methodologies, with a preference for experience in delivering secure solutions within the Financial Services Sector. | — | 0 |
| Lead Software Engineer - Solutions Lead a team of software engineers in designing and delivering web and mobile solutions for a personalization platform, focusing on client integrations and technical leadership. | — | 0 |
| Lead, Infrastructure Project Management Engineer Lead, Infrastructure Project Management Engineer responsible for managing and maintaining Mastercard's network infrastructure, including implementing enhancements, providing production support, monitoring performance, and ensuring security. The role involves leading network building, maintenance, and monitoring across various environments, assessing security safeguards, resolving complex problems, and performing vendor comparisons and cost studies. | — | 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 |