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Senior Cloud Database Engineer

3 weeks, 5 days ago
United States
Full-time
Senior
Database Administrator
DevOps and Infrastructure
AWS CI/CD Datadog DynamoDB Java Linux MongoDB MySQL PostgreSQL Python Shell Scripting Terraform
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Marqeta

Marqeta

Marqeta is a pioneer in modern card issuing and payment solutions, offering businesses instant card issuance and payment processing through their innovative open API platform.

Diversified Financial Services
251-1K
Founded 2010
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Description

  • Support all services owned by the Database Engineering team through a 24x7 on-call rotation.
  • Contribute to the technical vision for database engineering, including maintenance and cloud migration of relational and non-relational databases.
  • Design high availability and disaster recovery solutions for database architecture.
  • Drive initiatives such as platform architecture, database partitioning, sharding, and expansion of the database footprint to support growth.
  • Build automation-first solutions that reduce manual work across database operations.
  • Collaborate with engineers across teams to execute short- and long-term technical plans.
  • Perform root cause analysis, implement remediation, and document efforts to reduce incidents.
  • Write clear design documents and communicate technical decisions and trade-offs to stakeholders.
  • Contribute to monitoring and alerting practices using tools such as Datadog.
  • Mentor junior engineers and help define team standards.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience as a backend engineer.
  • Bachelor’s degree, or 7+ years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
  • Experience with cloud-native databases, preferably on AWS, including Aurora, MySQL, and Postgres.
  • Experience with NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB or MongoDB.
  • Experience with cloud-based high availability, disaster recovery, and distributed systems including replication and failover.
  • Experience with infrastructure as code, automation, and orchestration tools such as Terraform and AWS Step Functions.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, job runners, and deployment automation.
  • Strong understanding of database administration, including internals, query tuning, indexing, and performance metrics.
  • Proficiency in Python.
  • Experience with Linux commands and shell scripting.
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools, with Datadog preferred.
  • Nice to have: experience with logical/physical migrations and blue-green switchovers.
  • Nice to have: experience with database fleet management.
  • Nice to have: familiarity with AI tooling.
  • Nice to have: basic Java knowledge.
  • Nice to have: experience in payments or FinTech.
  • Nice to have: experience with ProxySQL and/or RDS Proxy.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $144,100 to $180,100 USD for the National U.S. tier.
  • Annual bonuses for eligible employees.
  • Multiple health insurance options.
  • Flexible time off.
  • Retirement savings program with company contribution and after-tax contributions.
  • Equity in a publicly traded company plus an Employee Stock Purchase Program.
  • Family-forming benefits, fertility support, and up to 20 weeks of parental leave.
  • Free therapy sessions, financial and professional coaching, and legal advice.
  • Monthly remote work stipend.
  • Annual development dollars for learning and growth.
  • Flexible-first work model with the freedom to work remotely in the U.S. or from a company office, depending on location tier.

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