# Lead PostgreSQL Engineer

Hiring organization: [Mastercard](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/mastercard)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/875ce2a4-fe9e-41f2-b7c5-2985937c7991

Listed on Mastercard's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: O Fallon, MO
- Salary: 122000 – 207000 USD per year

## Summary

Lead a team designing and operating Mastercard's enterprise PostgreSQL databases at scale, combining deep database expertise with platform engineering practices to build secure, highly available services. This role suits experienced database engineers ready to drive technical strategy and mentor others across cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.

_Our summary, not Mastercard's wording._

## Skills named

Ansible, Apache Cassandra, AWS CloudFormation, Chef, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, Linux, MongoDB, OpenShift, PostgreSQL, Redis, Terraform, Unix

## Required

- Deep PostgreSQL architecture and administration expertise
- AWS Aurora PostgreSQL experience
- Cloud infrastructure engineering at enterprise scale
- CI/CD pipeline design and implementation
- Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Chef)
- Distributed systems and cloud-native platform knowledge
- Linux/Unix system administration
- Software scripting and automation
- Troubleshooting and root cause analysis
- Security and compliance implementation

## Nice to have

- EnterpriseDB (EDB) experience
- Kubernetes or OpenShift expertise
- Oracle, Cassandra, MongoDB, or Redis support experience
- Software programming experience
- Microservices architecture knowledge
- Experience leading geographically distributed teams
- IT Service Management experience

Apply on Mastercard's site: https://mastercard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CorporateCareers/job/OFallon-Missouri/Lead-PostgreSQL-Engineer_R-284513