Principal Software Engineer
Mastercard
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This role pays more than 95% of similar roles. Most pay $165,000–$225,500 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $330k versus about $195k for comparable roles.
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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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Vice President, Software Engineering leads the Developer Workbench team to create a unified, AI-enabled, end-to-end software engineering experience across the enterprise. This leader is responsible for transforming disconnected tools into a productized developer experience that improves productivity and accelerates onboarding while ensuring robust governance throughout the software development lifecycle. The role involves defining technical architecture, integrating developer tooling, managing quality systems, and implementing AI-assisted coding capabilities and agentic development workflows. Key responsibilities include overseeing cloud and local development environments, establishing tool governance models, and leading a high-performing organization of engineers and architects. The position requires expertise in CI/CD, cloud-native architecture, platform engineering, and developer experience. This role solves the challenge of fragmented internal tools by building a seamless journey from coding to deployment while ensuring security and scalability across the enterprise's software development infrastructure.
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