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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| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II to join Cloud Engineering team. Build, operate, and automate cloud platforms at scale, focusing on AWS, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code. Design, build, and maintain cloud-native infrastructure and platforms. Write code, ship infrastructure, troubleshoot production issues, and learn large-scale platform operations in an enterprise environment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Mastercard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Transaction Switching program, focusing on improving authorization response time. The role involves performance testing, tuning, and identifying/fixing performance bottlenecks in a high-volume transaction system. The engineer will work closely with development teams in an Agile environment, utilizing C/C++ and Linux, and automating tasks. | — | 0 |
| Lead Software Engineer - Java Lead Software Engineer with Java/Kotlin and SpringBoot expertise to design and develop next-generation digital products and services for Mastercard's API Platform, serving a global audience. Responsibilities include architecting, implementing, testing, and iterating on features, contributing to open-source projects, and ensuring automation in build, deploy, and monitoring processes. The role requires experience with cloud-native applications and API security. |
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| Lead Software Engineer Lead Software Engineer at Mastercard, focusing on developing and maintaining secure software solutions within the fintech domain. The role involves collaboration with cross-functional teams and driving innovation. | — | 0 |
| Lead Software Engineer - Automation Testing & Java Coding Lead Software Engineer role focused on developing and testing automation for Mastercard's Decision Management Platform, a Java-based system for fraud detection and cardholder identity validation. The role involves direct software development, mentoring, performance testing, and ensuring adherence to security and quality standards within an Agile SAFe framework. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Software Engineering Manager, Software Engineering to implement large scale distributed systems based on reactive architectures. Expected to actively engage in architectural discussions, provide guidance to the team members and consistently produce high quality code. Own on-time, high quality delivery of the product, manage and mentor a team of software engineers, design and implement highly resilient large scale distributed systems using event driven architectures, write code to build and enhance applications/services, conduct code-reviews, and other standard development practices to deliver high-quality artifacts to production. Drive prioritization decisions and trade-offs through working with product partners, automate and simplify all aspects of software delivery and development, introduce new technologies and architectures aligning to enterprise guidelines by conducting POCs. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Software Engineering Software Engineering Manager for Commercial Solutions at Mastercard, focusing on building modern authentication and authorization solutions. The role involves people management, technical guidance, hands-on programming, and ensuring the delivery of high-performance applications using technologies like Java, Angular, PCF, Spring Boot, and Oracle. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer (Mainframe/COBOL) Mastercard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with Mainframe/COBOL experience to develop and maintain core payment functionalities. The role involves analyzing business requirements, creating cutting-edge solutions, and ensuring high performance and security for mission-critical applications. Responsibilities include leading automation and quality initiatives, coordinating with global teams, and contributing to the technical roadmap. | — | 0 |
| BizOps Engineer II Site Reliability Engineer role focused on building and automating CI/CD pipelines, ensuring operational readiness, and driving DevOps transformation within a financial solutions team. The role involves partnering with development teams to implement and support technology services, focusing on system availability, capacity, performance, monitoring, and deployment automation. It also emphasizes risk management, compliance, and streamlining support activities to improve customer experience and operational efficiency. | — | 0 |
| Lead Site Reliability Engineer Lead Site Reliability Engineer responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of Java, Spring Framework applications supporting Mastercard's global operations. The role involves fostering developer ownership, automation, capacity planning, monitoring, and risk management, with a focus on production readiness and compliance within the fintech domain. | — | 0 |
| Service Management Reliability Engineer Mastercard is seeking a Senior Bizops Engineer-1 to serve as a Business Operations Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / Operational Readiness Architect. The role focuses on ensuring platform stability, health, and resilience by fostering developer ownership, supporting operational design, automation, capacity planning, and monitoring. Key responsibilities include establishing operational standards, leading triage and root-cause analysis with a focus on business impact, engaging early in the development lifecycle, driving risk management and compliance, and supporting the application CI/CD pipeline and DevOps automation. The role also involves aligning product priorities with operational needs, optimizing mean time to recover, and working with a global team. | — | 0 |
| Manager, BizOps Mastercard's Business Operations (Biz Ops) team is looking for a Business Operations Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to act as a production readiness steward for Mastercard products. This role focuses on ensuring platform stability and health, fostering developer ownership, and empowering developers to build resilient products. Responsibilities include operational design, automation, capacity planning, monitoring, CI/CD support, incident response, and root cause analysis to maximize customer experience and minimize risk. The role emphasizes a proactive approach to development and operations, aligning product priorities with operational needs, and managing compliance and risk mitigation. | — | 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. | — | 0 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 Site Reliability Engineer Lead Site Reliability Engineer responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of Java, Spring Framework applications. Focuses on production readiness, operational design, automation, capacity planning, monitoring, triage, root cause analysis, and compliance. Fosters developer ownership and resilience, while aligning product priorities with operational needs. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer (Java Backend Developer with experience in designing, developing, coding) Mastercard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with experience in designing, developing, and coding software solutions. The role involves defining requirements, developing and testing applications, and providing technical leadership and mentoring. Responsibilities include full systems development lifecycle management, system maintenance, incident problem management, and researching new technologies. The position also requires adherence to quality assurance and control processes, and coordination of offshore development. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II at Mastercard in Pune, India, focused on developing microservices for the Mastercard Payment Networks team using Java, Spring Boot, and Event Driven Architecture within a Cloud Native and Scaled Agile Framework. The role emphasizes Object-Oriented Programming, CI/CD, and adherence to coding best practices in a regulated financial services environment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Test Senior Software Development Engineer in Test responsible for designing and implementing test automation strategies for web applications, system-to-system interfaces, and software solutions within an Agile SCRUM team. Focuses on validating application functionality and performance, API and UI testing, and collaborating with developers to ensure quality. | — | 0 |