Cloud Database Engineer II

Summary

Join Marqeta as a Software Engineer II and contribute to the Cloud Database Engineering team, responsible for relational databases powering Marqeta's card issuing platform. You will automate AWS Aurora instance lifecycles, collaborate with application teams on database performance analysis, and innovate next-generation database solutions. Marqeta's platform boasts 99.999+% cardholder availability globally, processing over 5 billion transactions annually. This role offers significant impact and can be performed remotely within the Toronto or Vancouver metro areas. The team focuses on automation, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions. You will work on modernizing database designs and implementations to increase reliability, resiliency and scalability of the platform.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with payments or the FinTech space

Benefits

• Multiple health insurance options
• Flexible time off – take what you need
• 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