The Role
We're hiring a Cloud Engineer for the unglamorous, essential work of making Incident Response fast enough that nobody notices it at all. Stack the numbers: $111,000 - $164,000, 4 years required, full-time schedule, and a mid-level seat that grows as fast as you do.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver mid-level-quality features within the $111,000 - $164,000 Cloud Engineer mandate
- Lead the ELK Stack migration that finally retires Mastercard's flat-and-fast legacy stack
- Trace a remote-native technology bug across three ELK Stack services to the one bad line
- Own the high-energy Cost Optimization subsystem that the rest of Mastercard quietly depends on
- Respond to on-call rotations and participate in incident postmortems
- Turn vague technology tickets into crisp, testable ELK Stack acceptance criteria
- Ship Negotiation experiments fast, kill the losers, and double down on what sticks
- Tune Accountability caching so Mastercard survives the Long Beach launch spike on the same hardware
What You'll Bring
- Experience supporting cross-functional teams in a mid-level capacity
- A communication style that translates jargon back into plain English
- An appetite for ownership that scales with the stakes
- A knack for Go that colleagues quietly come to rely on
Few people outside CA realize that Mastercard powers a surprising slice of the technology infrastructure running across Long Beach, CA today. Mistakes get dissected for lessons at Mastercard, never weaponized in your next review.
You will see $111,000 - $164,000 on the offer, plus a growth plan, a mentor, and benefits tuned for life beyond the Long Beach office.
Our team checks new Cloud Engineer applications every single business day.
Apply now to begin a rewarding career with our Long Beach, CA team.
Skills
- CKA Certification
- Incident Response
- Cost Optimization
- Splunk
- Prometheus
- ELK Stack
- Go
- Negotiation
- Accountability
- Coaching
Benefits
- Discounts on company products
- Vacation Days
- Phantom stock plan
- Public transit subsidy
- Backup childcare assistance
- Survivor benefits
- Global mobility program
- Cost-of-living adjustments