Site Reliability Engineer I, Launch Program 2027 – St. Louis, MO, US

Mastercard Inc.; O’Fallon (MO); On-site; USD 69,000 - 93,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with company match

Paid time off

Health insurance

On-site fitness facilities

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Mastercard seeks a Site Reliability Engineer I for its Launch Program 2027 in St. Louis, MO. You will help ensure production readiness, promote owner‑ship across teams, and drive resilient, scalable product delivery within a collaborative, learning culture.

Ideal candidates are pursuing a Bachelor’s or accelerated Master’s degree with hands‑on work in Python/Go, Linux, cloud platforms, and DevOps practices. This is a full‑time, on‑site opportunity in the United States.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a bachelor’s or accelerated master's with expected graduation between Dec 2026 and Jun 2027.
• Experience with programming/scripting (Python/Go/Bash) and Linux/Unix systems.
• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and DevOps practices including CI/CD.
• Familiar with monitoring, observability, and performance optimization concepts.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the production readiness steward for Mastercard products.
• Promote developer ownership and build resilient, scalable products.
• Support operations with triage, post‑mortems, and risk mitigation.
• Collaborate across teams to align product focus with operational needs.

Skills

Python

Go

Bash

Linux

Networking

Cloud platforms

DevOps

CI/CD

Containers

Monitoring

Automation

Observability

SRE practices

Education

Bachelor’s or accelerated Master’s degree in a related field

Tools

Splunk

Dynatrace

Jenkins

Bitbucket

PCF

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

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 Site Reliability Engineer I, Launch Program 2027 – St. Louis, MO, US

Why join Mastercard’s Launch Program?

Throughout this 18-month program, you'll develop the ability to connect ideas, people, and markets to drive commercial impact. Through hands-on experiences, cross-functional projects, and structured learning opportunities, you'll gain exposure to multiple areas of Mastercard's business while building broad business acumen and a global perspective. You'll collaborate with teams across functions, contribute to strategic initiatives, and strengthen the skills needed to solve complex business challenges. This experience will help you build a well-rounded commercial mindset and prepare you for a variety of career paths across Mastercard's global organization.

About the team

The role of the Business Operations Site Reliability Engineer is to be the production readiness steward for Mastercard products. As Business Operations SRE, we are responsible for ensuring that our platform is stable and healthy. We break down barriers to running our products by fostering developer-run ownership and empowering developers to build resilient products. We support our developers during the application build phase in software run principles that include operational design, automation, capacity planning, and monitoring that leads to fault-tolerant, scalable products. We see the big picture and help create and enforce operations standards while facilitating an agile and learning culture. We support daily operations with a hyper focus on triage, root cause by understanding the business impact of our products and subsequently performing blameless post-mortems.

The goal of every Business Operations team is to engage early in the development lifecycle to be more proactive and upfront in the development process, and to proactively manage production and change activities to maximize customer experience and increase the overall value of supported applications. Business Operations teams also focus on risk management by tying all our activities together with an overarching responsibility for compliance and risk mitigation across all our environments. Ultimately, the role of Business Operations is to align Product and Customer Focused priorities with Operational needs by providing continuous feedback throughout the lifecycle.

What we’re looking for

• Currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s or accelerated Master’s degree, with an anticipated graduation date between December 2026 and June 2027
• Experience through projects or internships with programming/scripting (Python, Go, Bash, or similar), Linux/Unix systems, and foundational networking concepts
• Internship or strong project work with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, containers, and automation tools through academic or hands‑on experience
• Understanding of system monitoring, observability, application reliability, troubleshooting, and performance optimization concepts
• Exposure to tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Jenkins, Bitbucket, PCF, or similar technologies through coursework, projects, internships, or personal learning
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with a willingness to learn new technologies and work in a collaborative team environment
• This role is not eligible for Mastercard’s work authorization sponsorship. As such, candidates must be eligible to work in the United States, now as well as in the future, without employer sponsorship. For example, students or recent graduates in the United States on an F1 visa (including those with CPT or OPT authorization) are not eligible for this role

Base Salary: $81,000

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 [e-mail] 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.

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.

In 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. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Full‑time Benefits

• insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
• flexible spending account and health savings account
• paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave)
• 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time
• 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro‑rated based on date of hire
• 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays
• 401k with a best‑in‑class company match
• deferred compensation for eligible roles
• fitness reimbursement or on‑site fitness facilities
• eligibility for tuition reimbursement
• and many more

Intern Benefits

• 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time
• jury duty leave
• on‑site fitness facilities in some locations

Everyone wants easier ways to pay; we invent them. Checkout lines are slow; we speed them along. Merchants want more sales; we give them data and insights. People need financial access; we connect them. Corporate purchasing is complicated; we make it simple. Commuters are busy; we speed them on their way. Governments need greater efficiencies; we help create them. Small businesses are virtual; we give them access to a world of buyers. Retailers want to fight fraud; we provide the tools.