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).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Software Engineer - Backend/Platform Agentic AI Senior Software Engineer focused on building and operating a first-party AI platform with agentic, conversational, and generative AI capabilities for enterprise analytics products. The role involves end-to-end development of agentic AI systems, defining technical direction, building AI-enabled services, and ensuring production-grade infrastructure, scalability, reliability, and adherence to governance and Responsible AI standards within a regulated environment. | Agent | 8 |
| Software Engineer II - Backend/Platform Agentic AI Software Engineer II - Backend/Platform Agentic AI role at Mastercard, focused on building and operating a first-party AI platform for analytics products. The role involves writing code daily, owning components end-to-end, and shipping production-grade AI-enabled services within a multi-tenant, customer-facing platform. Key responsibilities include implementing agentic workflows, integrating LLM-powered capabilities, and operating AI systems in production. |
| Agent |
| 8 |
| Lead Technical Program Manager Lead Technical Program Manager for an internal AI & Decision Product Enablement platform that powers intelligent, data-driven decision-making across market-facing financial products. The role involves driving execution of AI-driven and agent-based solutions, ensuring alignment between product, engineering, and finance stakeholders, and delivering high-impact capabilities. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Mastercard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their B&MI Technology Development team. This role focuses on delivering AI-driven capabilities by building and owning Java services and APIs that deliver AI-powered features, and developing/productionizing AI components in Python. The role involves implementing and operating AI systems in production, managing the full lifecycle from design to deployment, and mentoring other engineers. It blends deterministic systems engineering with AI engineering for probabilistic systems. | ServePost-train | 7 |
| Lead Software Engineer Lead Software Engineer for Mastercard's Global File Transfer platform, focusing on building and operating a secure, high-performance data movement system. The role involves modernizing engineering practices, including the adoption of AI-assisted development tools, and ensuring platform reliability, security, and operability. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on driving technology, platforms, and engineering practices within Mastercard's Business & Market Insights (B&MI) organization. The role involves improving CI/CD, designing reusable frameworks, leading modernization efforts with cloud-native technologies and AI-assisted engineering, and building scalable applications. It emphasizes technical leadership, mentorship, and collaboration to accelerate software delivery and enhance developer productivity. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II at Mastercard designs and codes artificial intelligence, cloud, and machine learning platforms that provide mission-critical insights to many of the world’s leading organizations and governments. The role involves developing high-performing, highly scalable software solutions and products with speed and agility as part of a small team. | — | 5 |
| Lead Software Engineer Lead Software Engineer for Mastercard's real-time Decision Management Platform, responsible for scoring and approving payment transactions. The role is hands-on, involving coding, architecture, and using AI coding tools to enhance engineering quality and speed. Focuses on building, scaling, and improving the platform's performance, reliability, and security. | — | 5 |
| Manager, Software Engineering Manager of Software Engineering for the Mastercard Authentication team, focusing on enhancing and modernizing payments services. The role involves leading multiple scrum teams, defining and delivering strategic initiatives, providing technical leadership in Java, microservices, and event-based applications, and ensuring the development of a global technology platform with a focus on performance, security, and reliability. A key aspect is driving AI augmented development and integrating AI agents with enterprise tools. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer The Senior Software Engineer will work on the AI & DPE organization's DMP platform, a cloud-native, real-time decisioning and AI inferencing system for fraud detection and enterprise decision management. The role involves hands-on rule authoring, platform modernization, and implementing best practices for high-throughput, low-latency systems, with a focus on AI technologies like Gen AI and LLMs within the fraud domain. | Serve | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer at Mastercard, focusing on building Open Finance solutions. The role involves full-stack development with Java and React, designing and delivering data products, and collaborating across teams. Experience with AI coding assistants and prompt engineering for code generation is mentioned. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer, Data Architecture Mastercard is seeking a Principal Software Engineer, Data Architecture to define and evolve their global enterprise data architecture. This role involves setting the architectural vision for modernizing data platforms across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments, supporting both batch and real-time use cases. The engineer will act as a senior technical authority, ensuring data is designed, governed, secured, and distributed securely and at scale, while meeting stringent regulatory and performance requirements. The role emphasizes championing Data Mesh principles, establishing architecture standards, and leading the adoption of modern data technologies. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer (Big Data) Mastercard is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to join the AI&DPE Data Engineering platform team, responsible for building and evolving large scale backend data systems, real time and batch pipelines, and AI enabled services that power analytics, decisioning, and automation across the organization. This role focuses on Scala/Python/Java, distributed data platforms (Cloudera/Spark), and cloud based architectures, with a strong emphasis on AI agent creation and intelligent automation. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer II Mastercard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II, who will be responsible for building and optimizing data platforms, pipelines, and systems to support advanced analytics, machine learning, and business insights. The role involves collaborating with engineering, product, and analytics teams to deliver reliable data solutions. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Mastercard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, test, and maintain complex software solutions within the Decision Management Program (DMP). This role involves technical leadership, mentoring, and contributing to the full software development lifecycle, with a focus on code quality, system design, and agile processes. The engineer will automate build/operate/run aspects, drive service integrations, and mentor junior team members. A strong background in Java, software development processes, and performance tuning is required, along with a demonstrated track record with AI. | — | 0 |
| Lead, Enterprise Operations - Messaging This role leads the enterprise messaging platform, focusing on Microsoft Exchange Online, Proofpoint, and Microsoft Purview. It ensures secure, compliant, and highly available messaging services, drives platform modernization, improves customer experience, and strengthens security posture. Responsibilities include end-to-end ownership, security and compliance implementation, incident response, vendor management, and automation. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineer II Mastercard is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer II to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of their applications supporting global operations. The role involves being a production readiness steward, fostering developer ownership, supporting the build phase with operational design, automation, capacity planning, and monitoring. Responsibilities include daily operations with a focus on triage, root cause analysis, blameless post-mortems, risk management, compliance, and aligning product priorities with operational needs. The engineer will work independently on projects, support high-availability systems, assist in evaluating operational needs, contribute to automation, troubleshoot system issues, document procedures, and participate in quality checks. | — | 0 |
| Senior Service Management Engineer Mastercard is seeking a Senior Reliability Engineer/Certificate Lifecycle Management Engineer to ensure platform stability and health. This role involves managing certificate renewals, supporting services before go-live, analyzing ITSM activities, and ensuring adherence to operational and security standards. The engineer will foster developer ownership, implement automation, and contribute to fault-tolerant and scalable products within a regulated fintech environment. | — | 0 |
| Principal Systems Engineer Principal Systems Engineer to drive customer experience strategy for the SME Partnerships and Cashflow division. The role involves designing and building cloud-native solutions at global scale, supporting high transaction volumes for a B2B technology platform. Responsibilities include defining architectural vision, developing roadmaps, leading architecture reviews, and providing technical leadership. The role also involves leveraging AI-driven tools to enhance engineering efficiency. | — | 0 |
| Director, Enterprise Operations Director, Enterprise Operations at Mastercard to drive customer experience strategy, lead hybrid teams, and modernize service delivery. Focuses on defining global support strategy, leading the shift to proactive and digital-first support through automation and self-service, and advancing continuous improvement using analytics and emerging technologies. Ensures global service delivery excellence, provides executive insights, and develops a high-performing workforce. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Platform Engineering - Big Data Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering - Big Data Engineering role at Mastercard. This position leads a team responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable, secure, and resilient platform infrastructure, focusing on Big Data Engineering. The role involves hands-on technical leadership, people management, driving adoption of modern engineering practices like IaC, container platforms, CI/CD, and microservices, and fostering a collaborative team environment. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II on the Decision Management Program (DMP) team at Mastercard, focusing on customer experience strategy by working with advanced decisioning and intelligence platforms. The role involves the full software development lifecycle, troubleshooting, optimization, and collaboration within an Agile Scrum team. | — | 0 |
| Lead Software Engineer Lead Software Engineer at Mastercard focused on the architecture and design of microservices for API and web authentication authorizations. The role involves end-to-end ownership, leading complex engineering initiatives, and ensuring software quality, performance, and security in a global technology company within the payments industry. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Mastercard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their ADUEX Engineering organization. This role involves designing, building, and maintaining scalable, secure, and innovative cloud-native software solutions for small and medium businesses globally. The engineer will be responsible for the full software lifecycle, from architecture and design to production operations, focusing on performance, reliability, security, and compliance. | — | 0 |
| Manager Software Engineering (QA/Automation) Leads a team of software engineers delivering enterprise integration solutions across cloud-based platforms. Provides technical leadership, drives large-scale initiatives, and ensures high-quality, scalable, and secure software delivery aligned to business priorities. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II to help build a high-performance analytics platform that enables businesses to unlock greater value from their data. This role involves leveraging full-stack development expertise to design, build, deploy, and scale real-time, interactive applications used by thousands of clients globally. The platform blends industry-leading analytics, advanced software architecture, and the latest web technologies. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II on the Transaction Stream team, responsible for designing, building, testing, and enhancing applications and services that power real-time payment networks at a global scale. Focuses on backend services, APIs, and application features using Java, Spring Boot, and Spring Data JPA, with an emphasis on security, maintainability, and scalability. | — | 0 |
| Director Enterprise Order Management Platform This role is for a Director of Enterprise Order Management Platform at Mastercard. The primary focus is on leading the implementation and long-term ownership of a cloud-based Order Management platform, ensuring seamless integration across the enterprise order-to-cash landscape. Responsibilities include platform strategy, delivery enablement, integration leadership, and overseeing operational readiness and support. The role requires deep expertise in Order Management and Order-to-Cash processes, with a strong emphasis on cloud-to-on-prem integration patterns and cross-functional delivery leadership. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role at Mastercard focused on building authentication and security solutions for the Identity Solutions platform. Responsibilities include designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining scalable, cloud-native applications and microservices using Java and Spring Boot, with a strong emphasis on performance, scalability, reliability, and security. The role involves translating requirements into designs, leading system design discussions, writing tests, optimizing performance, applying secure coding practices, and troubleshooting production issues. Collaboration with product, security, and platform teams, as well as mentoring junior engineers, is expected. Experience with cloud platforms, containerization, and Agile environments is required. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II to help drive software delivery strategy by building secure, reliable, and scalable cloud-native solutions. Focus on Java, Spring Boot, and REST API development, with experience in relational databases and CI/CD practices. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role within Mastercard's Core Payments division, focusing on designing, building, and operating solutions for end-to-end clearing and settlement processing of credit and debit offline transactions. The role involves developing software components, ensuring compliance with standards, maintaining data integrity, and enabling high-volume transaction processing. | — | 0 |
| Director, Platform Engineering Mastercard is seeking a Director, Platform Engineering to lead the design, building, and maintenance of automation frameworks, platform services, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) capabilities for large-scale hybrid infrastructure environments. This role focuses on engineering reusable automation patterns, enabling self-service infrastructure delivery, and improving reliability and velocity across cloud and on-prem platforms. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with infrastructure automation tools like Terraform, Ansible, or Chef, strong DevOps engineering skills, and a passion for building scalable automation solutions. | — | 0 |
| Lead Technical Program Manager Lead Technical Program Manager with scrum experience to drive platform strategy for Mastercard's Decision Management Platform, focusing on industry-leading solutions for fighting payments fraud, customer experience, low latency, high volume, and high availability software solutions. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Technical Program Management Manager, Technical Program Management at Mastercard responsible for leading a global team of individual contributors to deliver complex projects and programs. This role involves defining roadmaps, developing execution plans, managing dependencies, tracking progress, mitigating risks, and making trade-off decisions. The ideal candidate has experience in people management, agile methodologies, and delivering technical programs. | — | 0 |
| Lead, Site Reliability Engineer Lead Site Reliability Engineer responsible for operational resilience through observability, automation, and platform engineering, with a focus on F5 load balancer platforms. Drives reliability by identifying risks, improving telemetry, enhancing automation, and mentoring engineers. | — | 0 |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer Senior Site Reliability Engineer for the ProCOM team, focusing on building and improving CI/CD pipelines, DevOps automation, and ensuring the reliability and scalability of services. The role involves the full lifecycle of services, from design to operation and refinement, with a strong emphasis on automation, incident response, and system health monitoring. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Java Full Stack Engineer Mastercard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with Java Full Stack experience to join their B&MI Technology development team. The role involves building enterprise applications using Java and Angular/React, focusing on business solutions, product enhancement, and new product development. Responsibilities include gathering business requirements, ensuring software designs align with enterprise architecture, developing high-quality code, and supporting zero downtime in production. The engineer will also be involved in designing, developing, testing, delivering, and monitoring scalable and secure cloud architectures on AWS, improving platform resilience, security, and scalability. Experience with J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, SQL/NoSQL databases, and cloud-native development is required. | — | 0 |
| Manager Software engineering Manager of Software Engineering for the global credit card authorization team at Mastercard, responsible for leading multiple scrum teams to deliver products and services in a high-volume transaction environment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on Enterprise Application Development using Java and front-end technologies, with responsibilities in gathering business requirements, ensuring software designs align with enterprise architecture, and developing scalable and secure cloud architectures on AWS. The role also involves performance engineering and monitoring of enterprise software. | — | 0 |
| Lead Software Engineer Lead Software Engineer to design, build, and advance internal developer platforms through modern, data-driven user interfaces. This role requires deep technical expertise, end-to-end ownership, and the ability to lead complex engineering initiatives across architecture, development, and operations. | — | 0 |
| Vice President, Platform Engineering Vice President, Platform Engineering role at Mastercard, focusing on advancing infrastructure and platform automation strategy. Responsibilities include designing, building, and maintaining automation frameworks, platform services, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) capabilities for large-scale hybrid infrastructure environments. Requires deep experience with Terraform, Chef, or Ansible, strong DevOps engineering skills, and leadership experience. | — | 0 |
| Senior Enterprise Operations Engineer - Technical Productions Lead Mastercard is seeking a Senior Enterprise Operations Engineer - Technical Productions Lead to oversee the technical and operational aspects of hybrid events and meetings. This role involves collaborating with stakeholders to design, produce, and execute events, leveraging technical knowledge of AV equipment, streaming, and video content creation. The lead will also analyze event data to report on technology performance and drive improvements in production technology. | — | 0 |
| Vice President, Software Engineering – Decision Management Program Lead engineering teams for Mastercard's Decision Management Program, a real-time decisioning platform for fraud prevention, risk scoring, and identity verification. Focus on strategy, architecture, modernization, and delivery of high-performance, scalable distributed systems using In-Memory data grids. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Mastercard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and support service platforms for cryptographic, key management, and certificate management functions. The role involves developing and supporting shared security services across the enterprise, with a focus on digital security technologies. Responsibilities include component design, development, integration, mentoring junior team members, and ensuring compliance with audit requirements. The ideal candidate will have experience with Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, C++, JNI, and a strong interest in Corporate Security. | — | 0 |
| Lead Site Reliability Engineer Lead Site Reliability Engineer responsible for driving SRE and DevOps maturity, shaping reliability strategy, defining standards, and elevating operational excellence across critical platforms. Focuses on resilience, scalability, and customer trust, partnering with engineering, architecture, and security teams. Ensures platforms are highly available, observable, self-healing, secure, compliant, and operated through repeatable processes. Influences architecture, design, and delivery to embed reliability and operability, with a shift-left operational mindset. Owns availability, latency, performance, and reliability objectives, leads incident response, and champions blameless postmortems. Drives CI/CD strategy, automation adoption, and defines standards for monitoring and alerting. Partners with security and compliance teams to embed controls and ensure regulatory requirements are met. Mentors engineers and contributes to best practices. | — | 0 |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer Mastercard's BizOps team seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to support the Data Delivery and Analytics program. The role involves enhancing applications, services, and platforms by engaging in the full lifecycle of services, from design to operation and refinement. Key responsibilities include analyzing ITSM activities, supporting services through design and capacity planning, maintaining system health via monitoring, scaling systems through automation, supporting the CI/CD pipeline, practicing incident response, and optimizing recovery times. The role also involves working with global teams, mentoring junior resources, and advocating for DevOps automation and best practices. | — | 0 |
| Lead Platform Architect Lead Platform Architect responsible for the analysis and design of the infrastructure framework to fit application, platform, or system needs in-line with MasterCard's operational standards and principles. This role ensures that the completed infrastructure and application architecture aligns with MasterCard’s security, scalability, and availability standards. The primary deliverable is the TAD (Technical Architecture Document). | — | 0 |
| Lead, Software Engineer (QE) Lead Software Engineer (QE) responsible for driving Quality Engineering best practices, building test automation, and ensuring software quality and stability within the fintech domain. This role requires strong software development and architecture skills to collaborate with developers and enhance software delivery processes. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer (IBM ODM) Mastercard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the AI & Decisioning Platform Enablement team, focusing on designing and delivering IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) rule solutions for real-time transaction decisioning, alerting, and notifications. The role involves providing technical expertise for fraud prediction applications, analyzing customer requests for fraud rule changes, designing rule strategies, and developing/implementing rule changes in an agile environment. | — | 0 |
| Lead Software Engineer (C/C++) Lead Software Engineer (C/C++) for Mastercard's global credit card authorization team, responsible for enhancing a system that processes billions of transactions. Focus on design, development, and quality. | — | 0 |