Senior Manager, Platform Engineering

at Marqeta

United StatesRemote

AWS Kubernetes Terraform cloudformation grafana prometheus

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

Requirements

We're seeking an experienced Senior Manager, Platform Engineering to lead our infrastructure software engineering team responsible for Marqeta's Kubernetes-based compute platform.

Container Orchestration: Kubernetes, Amazon EKS

Cloud Platform: AWS (multi-account architecture)

Infrastructure-as-Code: Terraform, Helm CI/CD: Argo

experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps roles

Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production environments at scale (architecture, operations, troubleshooting)

Extensive Cloud fundamental knowledge (AWS preferred, including EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, and other core services)

Strong understanding of SDLC methodologies, CI/CD practices, and infrastructure-as-code •

Experience managing ultra-high availability systems (99.99%+ uptime) in production

Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.) Hands-on

experience with container technologies, service mesh, and cloud-native architectures

Strong technical leadership skills with ability to influence without authority across the organization

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience Nice-To-Haves •

Experience in payments, financial services, or other highly regulated industries

Familiarity with PCI-DSS, SOC 2, and compliance requirements in cloud environments

AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or Security Specialty)

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) •

Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, AWS App Mesh)

Background with observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, etc.)

Knowledge of GitOps practices and tools (ArgoCD, Flux) •

Experience with multi-tenancy and platform security patterns

Familiarity with FinOps frameworks and cloud cost management tools Typical Process

– Solve for the Customer: With a deep understanding of our customers' business and empathy for their needs, we deliver products and services that drive their success.

– Make it Count: We drive forward with focus and agility. With a sense of urgency and purpose, we get the job done, and done right.

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