Senior Manager of Platform Engineering, Marqeta
$200.5-262.8k
Salary dependent on location. + Equity + ESPP
Modern payment & card issuing solutions
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Modern payment & card issuing solutions
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$200.5-262.8k
Salary dependent on location. + Equity + ESPP
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be the global standard for modern card issuing, empowering builders to bring the most innovative products to the world.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps roles
- 5+ years of people management experience, leading technical teams through complex initiatives
- 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)
- Proven track record of Kubernetes cost optimization and resource efficiency improvements
- 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
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- We're seeking an experienced Senior Manager, Platform Engineering to lead our infrastructure software engineering team responsible for Marqeta's Kubernetes-based compute platform
- This is a critical technical leadership role at the heart of our infrastructure, supporting the applications that process millions of payment transactions with ultra-high availability requirements
- You'll drive platform modernization, cost optimization, and operational excellence while leading a team of infrastructure software engineers who build and maintain the foundational systems that enable Marqeta's engineering organization to ship quickly and reliably
- 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
- Partner with engineering teams to optimize application resource requests and limits
- 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
- Balance innovation with stability through disciplined change management and deployment practices
- Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for platform infrastructure
- Apply software development best practices to infrastructure code (testing, code review, version control)
- 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
- You'll be working with technologies including (but not limited to):
- Container Orchestration: Kubernetes, Amazon EKS
- Cloud Platform: AWS (multi-account architecture)
- Infrastructure-as-Code: Terraform, Helm
- CI/CD: Argo
- Observability: DataDog
Application process
- Application Submission
- Recruiter Video Call
- Hiring Manager Video Call
- Virtual “Onsite” consisting of 4-5, 45-60 min calls
- Offer!
Our take
Marqeta processes payments quickly, offering businesses a more straightforward way to take customer payments with its physical and virtual card solutions. The company has a string of major companies utilizing its flexible and scalable platform, including Uber, Doordash and Square.
The company is rapidly expanding in Europe, with strong growth in processing volumes and new partnerships, including major collaborations with firms like Trade Republic. It also partnered with Visa and Affirm to introduce the Visa Flexible Credential, allowing users to access multiple payment methods on one card.
With a focus on global growth and delivering innovative financial services, Marqeta is targeting new verticals and supporting underbanked businesses. With this aim, the company is on its way to deepening its impact in the fintech space and driving further innovation in payments.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
May 2020
$150m
LATE VC
May 2019
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $542.5m
Company benefits
- Praise: We believe in generously recognizing each other’s talents and contributions, and sharing the goodness we see
- Health and wellness: We cover your premiums for health, dental, and vision. Plus, your pet gets his/her/its own insurance, on us
- Flexible time off: We take time to relax and recharge when needed. We have unlimited time off for most employees and encourage an average of 5 weeks per year
- Marqeta paid family leave: We support all families. We offer 12 weeks of paid leave for all new parents and up to 20 for birthing parents. We also offer 4 weeks of caregiving leave
- 401k match: We invest in your future. We’ll match 50% of your contribution and up to 6% of your salary
- Meaningful equity: As owners of the company, we’re all in this together. Full-time employees will receive equity in Marqeta
- Giving back: We recognize we’re part of a larger community and encourage employees to donate their time and expertise to organizations they support
- Monthly stipend: You’ll get an additional monthly stipend on your paycheck to help fund your daily commute, cell phone, and/or internet connectivity
- Stock discount: The Employee Stock Purchase Program allows employees to buy discounted company stock
Company HQ
Northgate - Waverly, Oakland, CA
Leadership
Jason Gardner
(Founder & Board Member)Having studied at Arizona State University, worked in Management for Benettar Marble & Granite, NetManage and Gartner Group. Then founded PropertyBridge and spent 2 years at MoneyGram before founding Marqeta as CEO in 2010.
Mike Milotich
(CEO)Spent a decade at VISA, ultimately serving as SVP (Head of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations). Was also Commercial Analytics Lead for PayPal and a Senior Financial Analyst at Barclays Global Investors.
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