**Our Purpose** _Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. 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._ **Title and Summary** Principal Software Engineer Work on complex enterprise-wide initiatives spanning multiple services/programs and drives resolution Work with business/product owners to architect and deliver on new services to introduce new products and bundles Drive the architectural design, including dependent services, service interactions, and policies Take ownership to improve the customer experience of an entire set of services/applications sold as products or bundled services Contribute and lead Guild initiatives by engaging and mentoring Engineers at all levels to improve the craftmanship of Software Engineering Simplify and improve the cost/benefit of a function/service/architecture strategy Apply judgment and experience to balance trade-offs between competing interests Venture beyond comfort zone to take on assignments across different areas of Software Engineering Take on organization-wide and public speaking engagements and publishes white papers and blogs on relevant and emerging technical topics Consult across teams and across organization lines to identify synergies and reuse opportunities Participate and contribute to Principal review architecture meetings and drive resolutions to enterprise-wide challenges and regulatory needs Write recommendations for job promotions based on an unbiased view of one's accomplishments Conduct technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the performance bar Identify and raise awareness to Silo-ed behaviors within the organization and teams **Corporate Security Responsibility** All 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: + Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices; + Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed; + Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and + Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.