engineering
Posted May 14Senior Cloud Database Engineer
at Marqeta
United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- Keep automation as the primary focus and ensure the design is tightly coupled with various automation to reduce manual work
- Write clear design documents and articulate technical decisions and trade-offs to peers and stakeholders.
Requirements
- You’ll be at the heart of all things Databases: automating the lifecycle of AWS Aurora instances, working closely with application teams to analyze Database performance and innovating in building Marqeta’s next-generation, highly available and resilient Database solutions.
- experience as a backend engineer and a Bachelor's degree. In lieu of a degree, 7+ years of relevant experience may suffice.
- Experienced with cloud native databases (AWS preferred), including transactional RDBMS such as Aurora, MySQL, and Postgres, as well as NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB or MongoDB .
- Experienced in IaC, automation and orchestration tools (Terraform, AWS Step Function, etc.).
- Solid understanding of database administration: internals, query tuning, indexing, and performance metrics.
- Proficient in Python. •
- Experience with Linux commands and shell scripting
- Strong sense of ownership — you follow through, raise issues proactively, and take accountability for your work.
- Curious and committed to continuous learning — you actively keep up with industry trends and apply new knowledge to your work.
- Database fleet management. AI tooling fluency Basics in Java •
- Experience with payments or the FinTech space •
- Experience with ProxySQL and/or RDS Proxy Your Manager
- – 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.
Experience
- Mentoring junior engineers and contributing to team standards. Who You Are 5+ years
Benefits
- Contribute to the technical vision for database engineering in maintenance and Cloud migration of the relational and non-relational databases used at Marqeta.
- Work with the engineers from various teams to execute on short- and long-term technical vision.
- Offer! Compensation and Benefits
- Compensation is aligned according to the below tier within the United States:
- When determining salaries, we consider several factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior experience, and work location. The new-hire base salary range for this position is:
- National: 144,100 - 180,100 USD
- We also believe in recognizing the contributions of our people. That's why we award annual bonuses to eligible employees, rewarding both individual performance and the success of the entire company.
- Along with monetary compensation, Marqeta offers
- Multiple health insurance options
- Flexible time off – take what you need
- Retirement savings program with company contribution and after tax contributions
- Equity in a publicly-traded company and an Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Family-forming benefits, fertility support, and up to 20 weeks of Parental Leave
- Monthly stipend to support our remote work model
- Annual “development dollars” to support our people growth and development
Additional details
- As Marqeta’s Senior Cloud Database Engineer, you will join our Cloud Database Engineering team wherein you will be responsible for all databases that power Marqeta’s card issuing platform.
- Marqeta’s platform supports high cardholder availability across multiple regions globally, serving over 5 billion transactions annually.
- The Cloud Database Engineering team operates at the center of everything Marqeta does, and there is endless opportunity to make a sizable impact across your team and the whole business.
- We work Flexible First . This role can be performed remotely in the United States, only in one of our National locations, which you can review here .
- Be part of a 24x7 on-call rotation supporting all services the Database Engineering teams owns
- Contribute to the design of high availability and disaster recovery solutions for database architecture
- Work on initiatives including but not limited to platform architecture, database partitioning, sharding, and the continuous evolution of the database footprint to support business growth.
- Work on the root cause analysis, remediation and document efforts to effectively minimize incidents.
- Contribute to monitoring and alerting practices using tools like Datadog.
- Experienced in cloud based high availability, disaster recovery, and distributed systems including replication and failover.