Lead PostgreSQL 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.

The Database Engineering team is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to lead the design, engineering, automation, modernization, and operational excellence of Mastercard's enterprise database platforms. This role combines deep expertise in PostgreSQL database technologies with Platform Engineering practices to build and operate secure, scalable, highly available database services that power Mastercard's global applications. The successful candidate will provide technical leadership, define engineering standards, drive automation initiatives, improve platform reliability, and advance cloud-native database capabilities across the organization.

The role partners closely with software engineers, architects, security teams, Site Reliability Engineers, and business stakeholders to deliver resilient database platforms while improving developer experience through automation, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD enablement, and operational excellence. This aligns with the expectations of the Platform Engineering job family, including ownership of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, security, automation, troubleshooting, and continuous platform improvement.

The Lead Platform Engineer, Database Engineering is responsible for the strategy, architecture, implementation, lifecycle management, and continuous improvement of Mastercard's enterprise database platforms. This individual will serve as the technical lead for PostgreSQL platforms while contributing to the modernization and support of Oracle, Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, and cloud-native database technologies. The role requires expertise in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure engineering, Infrastructure as Code, automation, distributed systems, performance optimization, security, and operational excellence.

• Lead the design, implementation, operation, and continuous improvement of enterprise database platforms.
• Serve as the primary technical leader for PostgreSQL, including Open Source PostgreSQL, EnterpriseDB (EDB), and AWS Aurora PostgreSQL.
• Design highly available, secure, scalable, and resilient database solutions using modern platform engineering principles.
• Engineer and support cloud infrastructure and cloud-native database services across AWS and hybrid environments.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption and platform automation using Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible, Chef, XLR, and related technologies.
• Build and enhance CI/CD integration for database provisioning, deployments, upgrades, testing, and operational workflows.
• Develop automation solutions that improve platform velocity, reliability, consistency, and operational efficiency.
• Design and maintain database infrastructure supporting distributed systems, microservices-based applications, and cloud-native architectures.
• Perform advanced troubleshooting, root cause analysis, performance analysis, capacity planning, tuning, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery planning.
• Establish monitoring, observability, reliability, and operational health frameworks for database services.
• Collaborate with software engineering and platform teams to provide architecture guidance, technical consultation, and platform support.
• Define and implement database engineering standards, configuration management practices, governance processes, and operational procedures.
• Ensure database platforms meet security requirements, risk controls, audit standards, regulatory requirements, and compliance obligations.
• Evaluate emerging database technologies and contribute to platform roadmaps, proof-of-concepts, and modernization initiatives.
• Lead complex technical initiatives spanning multiple teams and regions.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence through coaching, knowledge sharing, and technical leadership.
• Champion Agile delivery practices, operational excellence, and continuous improvement across database engineering services.