Senior Cloud Database Engineer, Marqeta

• 5+ years 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 cloud based high availability, disaster recovery, and distributed systems including replication and failover
• Experienced in IaC, automation and orchestration tools (Terraform, AWS Step Function, etc.)
• Experienced CI/CD — pipelines, job runners, deployment automation
• Solid understanding of database administration: internals, query tuning, indexing, and performance metrics
• Proficient in Python
• Experience with Linux commands and shell scripting
• Experienced in monitoring and observability tools: Datadog preferred
• 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
• You have a team-oriented approach – can effectively work on a project and cross-functionally with other teams

Desirable

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Be part of a 24x7 on-call rotation supporting all services the Database Engineering teams owns
• Contribute to the technical vision for database engineering in maintenance and Cloud migration of the relational and non-relational databases used at Marqeta
• 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
• Keep automation as the primary focus and ensure the design is tightly coupled with various automation to reduce manual work
• Work with the engineers from various teams to execute on short- and long-term technical vision
• Work on the root cause analysis, remediation and document efforts to effectively minimize incidents
• Write clear design documents and articulate technical decisions and trade-offs to peers and stakeholders
• Contribute to monitoring and alerting practices using tools like Datadog
• Mentoring junior engineers and contributing to team standards
• Your Manager: Oana Goilav, Manager, Software Engineering

• Recruiter For This Role: Prashant, Senior Technical Recruiter
• Typical Process:
• Application Submission
• Recruiter phone call
• Hiring manager video call
• Virtual “Onsite” consisting of 4-5, 45 min calls
• Offer!