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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.\nTitle and Summary\nSenior Software Engineer - AI PlatformsOverview:Mastercard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build production-grade AI platform capabilities that enable AI-powered products and agentic experiences across B&MI.\nYou will build reusable platform services, orchestration and runtime capabilities, and integration patterns that let AI models, agents, tools, enterprise data, and services run safely and observably in customer-facing products. You'll partner closely with AI Engineers, Data Scientists, Product Managers, and platform teams, and own system-level concerns such as identity, authorization, attribution, reliability, evaluation, guardrails, and operational controls. This role is ideal for engineers who excel in distributed systems and want to apply those fundamentals to scalable, secure, production-ready AI platforms.\nRole:\nDesign and build scalable, resilient AI platform services and reusable capabilities that support AI-powered products, intelligent workflows, and agentic systems.\nCreate secure integration patterns for models, agents, tools, enterprise data, and services so that actions are attributable, authorized, auditable, and observable.\nImplement orchestration and runtime patterns, including routers, supervisors, planners, stateful workflows, and asynchronous processing for multi-step AI execution.\nBuild reusable frameworks for model and tool invocation, context management, error handling, retries, timeouts, and compensating actions.\nIntegrate identity, permissions, policy enforcement, evaluation, and guardrails directly into AI execution paths.\nEnsure platform capabilities meet Mastercard standards for reliability, security, compliance, scalability, and performance, including performance analysis and tuning.\nDrive unit, functional, and integration testing to validate platform behavior and quality.\nCollaborate with AI Engineers and Data Scientists to integrate models, prompts, and evaluation approaches into larger production systems.\nOwn operations, including logging, monitoring, tracing, evaluation telemetry, troubleshooting, incident response, and continuous improvement.\nReview code, mentor peers, influence architectural decisions, and contribute reusable engineering standards across teams.\nAll About You:\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.\nProven experience building distributed, production-grade platforms, services, or software systems.\nStrong proficiency in object-oriented programming and backend development (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Python, or similar).\nStrong foundation in software design and architecture, data structures, and performance engineering.\nExperience designing APIs, platform services, event-driven integrations, and asynchronous workflows.\nDeep understanding of authentication, authorization, secure service-to-service communication, secure coding practices, and policy enforcement.\nExperience operating systems with high reliability, availability, observability, security, and regulatory requirements.\nAbility to work in ambiguous problem spaces, evaluate emerging AI technologies, and evolve platform capabilities iteratively.\nPreferred Skills:\nExperience integrating LLMs, machine learning models, or AI services into production software systems.\nFamiliarity with agent frameworks, model gateways, workflow engines, orchestration platforms, retrieval patterns, or AI evaluation tooling.\n• Experience designing reusable, audit-friendly, policy-driven platforms with guardrails and responsible AI controls.Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact  and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.\nCorporate Security Responsibility\nAll activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:\nAbide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;\n\nEnsure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;\n\nReport any suspected information security violation or breach, and\n\nComplete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.\n\nIn line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. 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