This role pays less than
93%
of similar roles. Most pay
$158,400–$215,000
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$130k
versus about
$187k
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.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Performance Engineering joins the SRE & Performance Engineering team to optimize and scale services within the Payment Optimization program. This role focuses on the Automatic Billing Updater service, which manages cardholder account information to reduce transaction declines. You will build and maintain robust performance testing suites, conduct bottleneck analysis, perform capacity planning, and execute chaos testing to ensure system reliability. The work involves monitoring latency, throughput, and availability while utilizing an automation-first mindset to improve engineering velocity. Key technologies include Java Virtual Machine internals, Java, Python, Scala, Bitbucket, Maven, Jenkins, Gatling, and BlazeMeter. You will also leverage AI-assisted engineering tools for script generation, log analysis, and anomaly detection. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, high-throughput financial applications, and identifying performance issues across databases, cache layers, and networking components.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?
Median $186200 from 131 postings across 36 companies.