Principal Software Engineer - Java, Edge, Security Models, Tls Certificate

Job Description: Principal Software Engineer

• The position has a unique opportunity to drive Mastercard's API Edge design, including security models, routing, traffic control, API management and other related work.

• Responsible for overall architecture of Mastercard's API Gateway. Leading, programming, testing, implementation, documentation, maintenance and support of Mastercard’s API Gateway in adherence with Mastercard standards, processes and best practices.

• Work with engineers, product managers, designers, and partner teams to deliver a set of features with the right overall design and architecture.

• Develop high quality, secure, scalable software solutions based on technical requirements specifications and design artifacts within expected time and budget.

• Research, create and evaluate technical solution alternatives in open source for the business needs.

• Follow standards in development and testing to ensure compliance with Audit and Regulatory Requirements. Adhere to Mastercard security standards, change management and quality controls, enabling automations where required.

• Support collection and reporting of project and software metrics that help billing and capacity planning.

• Provide mentorship and coaching to engineers in, and beyond, your team.

• Actively look for opportunities to enhance standards and improve process efficiency by optimizations and automations.

Role

Essential responsibilities of the position:

• Architecture and design of software solutions

• Technical solution & application architecture & design

• Development, review & ownership of architecture & design artifacts (SAD, API Specification etc.)

• Actively find ways (new technologies, tools, frameworks) to improve software solutions

• Work with Product Management and Engineering to translate product use cases and requirements to industry-leading design, architecture and implementations. Set architectural direction by grooming and prioritizing architectural stories related to baselining software stack, realization of non-functional requirement etc. and critical domain stories. Influence the product owner to balance the business and technical priorities and the value of the architecture work.

• Execute and own the baseline architecture implementations and design activities collaborating with Sr. Engineer & Engineering Team.

• Regularly communicate with management about risk analysis and design tradeoffs.

• Strong communication skills, with an ability to express and design ideas to a development team

Skills

• Understanding of Nginx or Nginx+ configurations is highly desirable.

• Understanding of TLS/SSL certificates, trust store and Certificate Authority is highly desirable

• Experience with management of applications deployed across the multiple geographic locations

• Experience in popular security Models, including OAuth1.0a, OAuth2.0 and Mutual TLS.

• Web services & API management experience

• Software development, design & architecture experience in enterprise grade software solutions.

• Programming & Scripting Languages (2 or more of Java, Groovy, C, JavaScript, Python, lua or Shell)

• Ability to operate effectively independently

• Strong communication skill (Written and Oral)

• Bachelor engineering or technology in Computer Science, Engineering or IT required. Master’s degree in related discipline preferred