Software Engineer

Our Purpose
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title and Summary
Software Engineer
About Mastercard:
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.
Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
The Role:
Cloud Infrastructure Engineers at Mastercard design, build, and operate the foundational platforms that enable our product and service teams to deliver securely, reliably, and at scale. This role focuses on Azure-based infrastructure, cloud-native services, and automation that power transaction processing, analytics, developer productivity, and self-service delivery across the enterprise.
As a Software Engineer II, you will work as part of a small, highly collaborative team to build reusable infrastructure components, enable self-service provisioning, and improve the reliability, security, and operability of cloud environments. You will contribute hands-on across the full lifecycle, from design and implementation to deployment and operational support, while continuously improving platform capabilities and developer experience.
As a Software Engineer II, you are expected to perform the following general responsibilities:• Own infrastructure components and services through design, build, test, deployment, and operational support• Develop and maintain cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code and automation-first practices• Support and improve CI/CD pipelines and self-service provisioning capabilities for service teams• Troubleshoot, remediate, and improve reliability of cloud platforms and environments• Contribute to technical decisions within the team and provide input on design tradeoffs• Assist and mentor junior engineers through code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing
All About You:• Hands-on experience building and operating Azure-based cloud infrastructure, including core services such as compute, networking, storage, identity, and security• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management (e.g., ARM, Bicep, Terraform, or equivalent), with an emphasis on reusable modules and standard patterns• Understanding of cloud networking and security fundamentals, including VNETs, routing, private connectivity, identity and access management, and secure service-to-service communication• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and distributed systems, including high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery concepts• Experience supporting the full lifecycle of infrastructure features, including writing design documentation, evaluating implementation approaches, breaking work into deliverable stories, and planning safe rollouts with rollback strategies• Treats operability as a first-class concern, incorporating logging, monitoring, alerting, and cost awareness into infrastructure designs• Working knowledge of CI/CD tooling and enterprise SDLC practices, including version control, code reviews, automated testing, and change management• Strong troubleshooting skills; able to form hypotheses, isolate root causes, and resolve complex or intermittent platform and infrastructure issues• Clear and effective communicator, able to document designs and operational workflows and participate in asynchronous technical discussions• Experience collaborating with and supporting application or service teams, helping them adopt platform capabilities and cloud best practices• Professional, adaptable, and team-oriented; approaches discussions with empathy and a bias toward shared outcomes• Uses awareness of industry trends in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and platform engineering to suggest incremental improvements to existing systems and practices
Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in Canada, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive pay based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program.
Pay Ranges
Vancouver, Canada: $91,000 - $140,000 CAD