Lead Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering
Mastercard is hiring a Lead Engineer for their Payments Network SRE team to ensure the reliability and scalability of critical payment infrastructure. The role involves leading infrastructure assessments, championing observability, driving root cause analysis, and automating reliability workflows. Candidates need deep experience in SRE operations, network troubleshooting, and observability tooling like Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus. This is a high-impact position managing infrastructure that supports 24/7 global operations.
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Experience
5-10 years
Function
Engineering
Work mode
Onsite, Singapore
Company
Tier 2
What you will work on
Mastercard is hiring a Lead Engineer for their Payments Network SRE team to ensure the reliability and scalability of critical payment infrastructure. The role involves leading infrastructure assessments, championing observability, driving root cause analysis, and automating reliability workflows. Candidates need deep experience in SRE operations, network troubleshooting, and observability tooling like Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus. This is a high-impact position managing infrastructure that supports 24/7 global operations.
TAL's take
Strong role at a reputable global financial firm involving high-scale, mission-critical payment infrastructure.
The JD provides a very clear scope of responsibilities, technical stack, and team context within the Payments Network SRE group.
Salaries at Mastercard
27.6 LPA average
Based on 95 Grapevine salary entries for Mastercard.
Engineering
0 - 2 years | L9
14 LPA average
Range: 10 - 22 LPA
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2 - 4 years | L8
22 LPA average
Range: 14 - 32 LPA
Engineering
4 - 6 years | L8
23 LPA average
Range: 12 - 38 LPA
Engineering
6 - 8 years | L6
24 LPA average
Range: 16 - 31 LPA
Must haves
- 5-10 years experience in SRE or operations role
- 3+ years supporting e-commerce, financial services, or SaaS
- Strong experience with observability tools like Splunk or Dynatrace
- Proficiency in packet-level debugging with tcpdump and Wireshark
- Experience with IaC tools like Chef, Ansible, or Terraform
- Experience partnering with development teams on SLIs and SLOs
Tools and skills
About the company
Established global financial services company with a massive scale but not classified as a Tier-1 tech pure-play.
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