Principal software Engineer

Overview

Principal Forward Deployed Engineer who embeds with Mastercard Services teams to write production code, remove delivery bottlenecks, deploy AI solutions, and strengthen team capabilities.

What you'll do

• Embed with Services product and engineering teams to ship production-quality features.
• Diagnose and clear architecture, performance, integration, tooling, and delivery bottlenecks.
• Design and deploy AI assistants, agents, and multi-agent workflows.
• Apply LLMs, RAG, agent frameworks, evaluation, observability, and governance in production.
• Coach teams on AI-assisted coding, testing, code review, release, prompt engineering, and agent design.
• Document solutions and transfer knowledge so teams become more self-sufficient.
• Partner with architecture, platform, and developer enablement teams to scale reusable solutions.

What you'll need

• Extensive hands-on software engineering experience at Principal or Senior Principal Engineer level.
• Experience shipping complex, production-grade systems.
• Advanced experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and service mesh architectures across hyperscale cloud environments.
• Deep experience building and deploying AI and agentic solutions using LLMs, agent frameworks, RAG, and orchestration patterns.
• Fluency in CI/CD, automation, cloud-native architecture, testing, and developer tooling.
• Ability to deliver measurable outcomes in unfamiliar teams under time pressure.
• Strong communication, influencing, and team-coaching skills.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Copilot Studio, Azure AI, or equivalent platforms.

Details

• Location: Pune, India.