[Hiring] Cloud Database Engineer II @Marqeta

Role Description

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
• 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.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience as a backend engineer
• 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.)
• 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

Requirements

• 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

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.
• Base salary range for this position, reflected in CAD, is: 92,900 - 116,100
• Annual bonuses to eligible employees, rewarding both individual performance and the success of the entire company
• 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