Principal Software Engineer (Architecture)

Overview

Principal Software Engineer (Architecture) role in Mastercard’s Network & Digital Payments group, focusing on architecture, design, and execution for scalable digital payment experiences.

What you'll do

• Drive collaboration across engineering, product management, enterprise functions, and regional business teams.
• Own architecture across APIs, microservices, data, and integration patterns.
• Lead end-to-end design and implementation of critical services in complex, high-risk areas.
• Make key decisions across performance, scalability, reliability, security, and observability.
• Provide technical leadership via design reviews, guidance, and hands-on support.
• Contribute to architecture governance, reviews, and documentation.

What you'll need

• Proven experience architecting large-scale, high-performance distributed platforms in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong foundation in distributed systems, API/service design, modern backend architecture, and data-intensive platform design.
• Experience with microservices architecture, domain-driven design, and modern integration patterns.
• Experience with CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes, and delivery practices across private/public/hybrid cloud environments.
• Strong web architecture understanding and RESTful API/application integration patterns.
• Experience with relational/operational data technologies including Oracle and PostgreSQL, including data models for high-volume transaction processing.

Details

• Location: Pune, India.