Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Mastercard

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Work type
On-site
Location
O Fallon, IL
Salary
$96,000–$163,000 / yr
Posted
29 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $183k
This role $130k
$80k most similar roles pay here $241k

This role pays less than 92% of similar roles. Most pay $152,258–$214,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $130k versus about $183k 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.

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TL;DR · Senior Site Reliability Engineer

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on the Business Operations team, you will serve as a production readiness steward to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of essential services powering global operations. You will partner with developers during the application build phase to implement operational design, automation, capacity planning, and monitoring for fault-tolerant products. Your daily work involves performing triage, conducting blameless post-mortems, managing risk mitigation, and developing technical solutions within existing frameworks. To succeed, you must utilize Python, Go, or Bash for scripting and automation while managing Linux/Unix systems and network components. You will leverage cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP to manage infrastructure. Key competencies include observability, CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and IT service management to ensure high availability and performance optimization across all production environments.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?

Median $186200 from 131 postings across 36 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of products powering global operations.
  • Implement observability solutions using scripting and tooling to collect and analyze metrics, logs, and traces.
  • Develop scripts in Python, Go, or Bash to automate operational workflows and incident response.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex system issues across Linux/Unix systems and network components.
  • Design and manage scalable infrastructure on cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Perform capacity planning and performance optimization to ensure high availability and fault tolerance.
  • Conduct blameless post-mortems and root cause analysis to improve system stability.
  • Manage risk mitigation and compliance across all production environments.

What we're looking for

  • Ability to use scripting and tooling to implement observability solutions including metrics, logs, and traces.
  • Ability to write and maintain code in Python, Go, Bash, or similar languages for automation and monitoring.
  • Experience configuring, operating, and troubleshooting Linux/Unix systems and network components.
  • Ability to design, deploy, and manage infrastructure on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Ability to design and operate systems for high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
  • Ability to apply DevOps principles including CI/CD pipelines and containerization.
  • Capability to systematically identify, diagnose, and resolve complex technical issues across systems and networks.
  • Ability to perform capacity planning and performance optimization to support infrastructure growth.

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