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Lead PostgreSQL Engineer

Mastercard

O Fallon, MO · full time · Senior

$122,000 – $207,000

Listed on Mastercard’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

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. The full posting is on their site.

What they ask for

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

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