engineering
Posted Apr 28Senior Manager, Platform Engineering
at Marqeta
United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of infrastructure software engineers focused on Kubernetes platform engineering
- Build a culture of innovation, operational excellence, and customer-focused platform development
- Recruit top talent and develop career growth paths for team members
- Foster collaboration with application development teams, SRE, security, and other infrastructure teams
- Drive technical decision-making while empowering engineers to own their solutions
- Define and execute the technical roadmap for Marqeta's Kubernetes compute platform
- Drive continuous platform modernization to support evolving business needs and scale requirements
- Champion platform-as-a-product mindset, treating internal engineering teams as customers
- Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies and AWS services to improve platform capabilities
- Lead architectural decisions for container orchestration, service mesh, observability, and developer tooling
- Develop and implement strategies to optimize Kubernetes infrastructure costs without compromising performance or reliability
- Monitor and analyze compute resource utilization, identifying opportunities for right-sizing and efficiency gains
- Implement FinOps practices including chargeback/showback models, budget alerting, and cost allocation
- Drive adoption of cost-effective AWS services and spot instances where appropriate
- Ensure ultra-high availability of the production Kubernetes platform supporting payment processing workloads
- Establish SLOs/SLIs for platform reliability and performance
- Lead incident response for platform-level issues and drive continuous improvement through blameless postmortems
- Implement comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions
- Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for platform infrastructure
- Drive infrastructure-as-code initiatives using Terraform and other automation tools
- Collaborate with security teams to embed security into the platform and SDLC
- Enable developer productivity through self-service capabilities and golden paths
- Proven track record of Kubernetes cost optimization and resource efficiency improvements