Lead PostgreSQL Engineer

About the role

Mastercard is looking for a Lead PostgreSQL Engineer to drive the design, engineering, automation, and operational excellence of its enterprise database platforms. The role blends deep PostgreSQL expertise with platform‑engineering practices to deliver secure, scalable, and highly available database services for global applications.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, operation, and continuous improvement of enterprise database platforms.
• Serve as the primary technical leader for PostgreSQL, including Open Source PostgreSQL, EnterpriseDB (EDB), and AWS Aurora PostgreSQL.
• Design highly available, secure, and resilient database solutions using modern platform‑engineering principles.
• Engineer and support cloud infrastructure and cloud‑native database services across AWS and hybrid environments.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption, automation, CI/CD enablement, and platform reliability initiatives.

Required profile

• Proven technical leadership in PostgreSQL platform engineering.
• Strong experience with cloud infrastructure, especially AWS.
• Hands‑on expertise in Infrastructure as Code, automation, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to collaborate with software engineers, architects, security teams, and SREs.

Required skills

• PostgreSQL (Open Source, EnterpriseDB, AWS Aurora)
• AWS cloud services
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools
• CI/CD tooling and practices
• Automation and scripting
• Distributed systems and performance optimization
• Security best practices for database platforms

What we offer

• Opportunity to shape global database platforms at a leading payments company.
• Collaborative environment with cross‑functional engineering teams.
• Access to cutting‑edge cloud and open‑source technologies.