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

Financials

251-1K (958)

Founded 2010

30 open positions

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Senior Cloud Database Engineer

5 days, 21 hours 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 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

View All Jobs 30

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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