This role pays more than
89%
of similar roles. Most pay
$173,051–$220,800
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$259k
versus about
$197k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Mastercard
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry, processing transactions between financial institutions and merchants using its extensive network of credit, debit, and prepaid card products. Industry: Payments Technology & Financial Services
Mastercard currently has
116 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$122,000–$207,000
across 104 roles with salary data.
As a Principal Software Engineer within the Decision Stream program, you will provide technical leadership and hands-on engineering to develop the next-generation Decision Management Platform. You will design, code, and prototype core platform capabilities while integrating AI-assisted development tools into daily workflows to improve quality and speed. Your responsibilities include building large-scale distributed systems, developing reusable services, and managing high-throughput, low-latency data pipelines for real-time transaction processing. You will work with technologies including AWS infrastructure, cloud-native patterns, and ML lifecycle engineering involving LLM integration and prompt engineering. The role focuses on solving complex problems in decisioning data architectures, feature catalogs, and rules engine modernization. You will also mentor engineers, lead architectural reviews, and advocate for modern engineering practices to enhance the reliability and scalability of automated decisioning systems.
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