Cloud Database Engineer II

We are looking for a Cloud Database Engineer II to join one of our Cloud Platform Engineering teams at Marqeta! You’ll be joining the Cloud Database Engineering team, who are responsible for all of the relational 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 99.999+% 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 anywhere within the province where you reside, whether that’s Ontario, Canada or British Columbia, Canada. We’d love for you to join us!

We have two openings for this role. This position is both for an existing and not existing vacancy.

The Impact You'll Have

• 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 to ensure 99.99% availability.

• Work on initiatives including but not limited to platform architecture, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, multi-AZ, and multi-region support for the database footprint.

• Keep automation as the primary focus and ensure the design is tightly coupled with various automation to reduce manual work.

• Work on modernizing database designs and implementations to increase reliability, resiliency and scalability of the platform.

• 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.

Who You Are

• 3+ years experience as a backend engineer and a Bachelor's degree or an advanced degree with no relevant experience. In lieu of a degree, 5+ years of relevant experience may suffice.

• Experienced in Cloud native databases (AWS preferred).

• Experienced with transactional RDBMS such as AWS-Aurora, AWS-RDS MySQL, Percona MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB.

• Experienced in cloud based high availability and disaster recovery solutions.

• Experienced in IaC, automation and orchestration tools (Ansible, Terraform, SpaceLift, AWS Step Function, CloudFormation, etc.).

• You have a team-oriented approach - can effectively work on a project and cross-functionally with other teams.

Nice-To-Haves

• Experience with payments or the FinTech space

Your Manager

• Oana Goilav

Recruiter For This Role

• Prashant

Typical Process

• Application Submission

• Recruiter Call

• Hiring Manager Interview

• Virtual “Onsite” consisting of 3 Technical Interviews

• Offer!

Compensation and Benefits

Marqeta is a Flex First company which allows you to choose your best working environment, whether that be from home or at a company office. To support Flex First, we calibrate pay to a competitive value according to working location.

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, reflected in CAD, is: 92,900 - 116,100

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 vacation time

• Retirement savings program with company contribution

• Equity in a publicly-traded company

• Monthly stipend to support our remote work model

• Annual “development dollars” to support our people growth and development

• Family-forming benefits and up to 20 weeks of Parental Leave

About Marqeta

Marqeta is on a mission to change the way money moves. We’re one of the earliest enablers of embedded finance, a market opportunity sized up in the trillions. Our card issuing platform provides unprecedented flexibility and control for companies to issue cards, authorize transactions, and manage payment operations in real time. Marqeta is powering the most well known brands in the new economy (Block, Cash App, Affirm, Instacart, Doordash, Uber, Walmart, etc). You don’t need to be a Payments expert to join the Marqeta Team, let us help you with that. This is the opportunity of a lifetime to work with innovators around the world and unlock equitable financial access for all.

Marqeta’s Values

- 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. Earning and keeping their trust guides everything we do.

- Do What's Right: Knowing businesses and livelihoods depend on us, we pursue solutions that disrupt responsibly and deliver high-quality results that our customers count on. We own our work from start to finish.

- Simplify and Innovate: We approach challenges with curiosity and take smart risks. Innovation comes from finding better, simpler ways to achieve extraordinary outcomes.

- Win as a Team: We succeed together by embracing diverse perspectives and pushing each other to raise the bar. We lead with humility and set aside hierarchy to work as a team.

- 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.

Equal Employment Opportunity, Accommodations and Privacy

Marqeta is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, childbirth, or related medical conditions), veteran status or uniformed service member status, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship or immigration status, physical or mental disability, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information (including testing or characteristics) or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

Marqeta endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to submit this application, complete any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participate in the employee selection process, please submit this form with your specific accommodation request.

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Notice on Use of AI in Recruitment

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