Senior Database Development 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

Senior Database Development Engineer

Who is 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.
To drive our future growth, we are scaling our platform and building new products. Ethoca’s growth is explosive, and only great problem-solvers, collaborators and thinkers can help us take it to the next level. If that sounds like you then keep reading!
We believe in decoupled, message-driven, and distributed systems. We strive to keep codebases small and manageable. We’re interested in reactive design patterns that will make our systems more resilient and responsive yet remain elastic to change. As we proceed through our technology roadmap, we are evaluating and implementing new community endorsed technologies for every tier of our platform. Our backend tiers are presently JVM-based. We are using or considering technologies like Kafka, Spring boot, ElasticSearch, Angular 10, Bootstrap, Chef, Ansible, Openstack, Docker and so on.
We want to hire a Senior Database Development Engineer who has a proven record of delivering high quality database solutions by using the appropriate industry leading products, patterns, and practices! You will also work with developers from various teams to code SQL queries and provide necessary recommendations on optimizing query plans.
Role
• Lead moderate project or initiative where specialized database knowledge is required.
• Configuring, patching, upgrading and optimizing database software and related products
• Participates and/or assists the scrum team in the development, maintenance, implementation and support of database technologies
• Perform runtime impact analyst (i.e. query performance, index management, etc) of implementation and decisions
• Automate routine tasks using scripting tools such as Bash/Ansible/Chef
• Contribute to Database Engineering process and procedures documentations.

All About You
• Experience with Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Cosmos DB and IBM Db2
• Experience with DB Change Management Tools (Flyway and Liquibase)
• Familiar with Agile (Scrum/Kanban), Jenkins CI/CD pipeline and automation
• Strong proficiency on data definition language (DDL) and data manipulation language (DML)
• Experience in security, backup/recovery, architecture, networking, and administration of database disciplines
• Strong performance and tuning skills with the ability to identify, response and resolve database performance issues and communicate database performance resolution to team or stake holders
• Experience with Dynatrace or Splunk
• Experience with scripting languages like Unix shell, Ruby and Python
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Mastercard is an 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. 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.