2–3+ years of experience in a warehouse, supply chain IT, or logistics environment
1+ year of hands‑on shipping and receiving experience
1+ year of break/fix or hardware troubleshooting experience
Basic understanding of computer applications and software
Strong attention to detail and ability to work effectively in a fast‑paced operational environment

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Principal Software Engineer

Mastercard

Chicago, IL 60290

RemoteEducation AssistanceHealth InsurancePaid Time OffRetirement Benefit

Extensive experience in designing and delivering large-scale, distributed systems and platforms.
Proven ability to influence technical strategy and drive architectural decisions across multiple teams.
Strong expertise in modern software engineering practices, cloud-native architectures, and AI/data platforms.
Exceptional communication and leadership skills with a track record of mentoring and thought leadership.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
Data Architecture & Strategy
Focus on designing modern, scalable, governed data ecosystems.
Data strategy and product-aligned data architectures
Modern database technologies and migration away from legacy Oracle
Data lakehouse architectures supporting analytics and ML workloads
Feature catalog / feature engineering platforms
High-Throughput, Low-Latency, and Real-Time Systems
Critical for Mastercard's real-time decisioning and event-driven platforms.
Event streaming and high-throughput data pipelines
Low-latency data technologies (distributed caches, grid replacement)
Real-time transaction processing and sub-second decisioning
Rules engine design and modernization
Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering & DevOps
Driving cloud-native engineering practices and operational excellence.
AWS infrastructure engineering and cloud-native platform patterns
DevOps and platform engineering (automation, CI/CD, observability, GitOps)
ML lifecycle engineering (model training, deployment, refresh, inference)
Deep, progressive experience in software engineering.
Proven technical leadership roles influencing architecture and design across multiple teams.
Proven track record of delivering large-scale, distributed systems and enterprise-grade platforms.