Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Marqeta as a Staff Engineer and significantly impact the developer experience. You will lead strategic investments to enhance productivity and developer happiness, leveraging AI-driven tools and fostering a culture of knowledge sharing. Oversee the design, development, and deployment of projects, promoting a data-driven culture and building relationships across engineering. Effectively communicate project strategies and mentor engineers, while developing superior tooling and metrics for SDLC systems. Solve problems for engineers, reduce development latency, and establish objective measurements of efficiency. Define and conduct DevEx surveys to improve the overall developer experience.

Requirements

• 10+ years of solid programming experience in Java, Python, and C++ or similar programming languages to build large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with developing developer infra and service, including development and code collaboration environments, CI/CD platforms, and measuring software development productivity and quality
• Deep understanding of the SDLC and related build and test systems
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with an ability to communicate technical strategy and roadmap in a clear, precise, and actionable manner, prior experience of creating and conducting new-hire training bootcamp with successful outcome
• Experience with build systems such as Gradle, Maven, Bazel, or Make, and familiarity with continuous integration and deployment tools such as CodeBuild, Jenkins, CircleCI or Github Actions
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana
• Knowledge of containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, understanding of infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Ansible, experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure

Responsibilities

• Oversee the design, development, testing, deployment and craft of your team’s projects, ensuring the delivered solutions are highly relevant to developer productivity and happiness, something users cannot imagine life without
• Promote and influence a data-driven culture across the organization
• Use objective measurement as the primary means of communication, guiding project execution and decision making, and tracking progress
• Build relationships across Engineering
• Conduct regular DevEx surveys within Marqeta, use developers' feedback to build and prioritize a strategy and roadmap for your team, and for products that may span multiple teams and the entire company
• Be able to articulate your projects, key results and product strategy in simple and clear narratives, easy to connect and comprehend by your team, the developer community and engineering leadership
• Use your extensive technical expertise to mentor engineers, to promote developer productivity within your team and across Marqeta
• Develop superior tooling and metrics to understand the health of our entire SDLC systems
• Establish and foster a data-driven engineering culture
• Solve problems for engineers by understanding their needs and devising both tactical and strategic solutions
• Effectively reduce and minimize development latency across key product lines and the entire engineering organization at Marqeta
• Establish objective measurement of Inner and Outer Loop Latency, pinpoint areas of friction and waste across SDLC and propose solutions to minimize latency
• Leverage established metrics for evaluation, progress tracking and insight
• Define DevEx survey questions and conduct DevEx surveys across the engineering organization in Marqeta, collect and analyze feedback and define areas of execution to achieve world-class developer experience for all Marqeta engineering teams
• Provide practical, reliable self-service tools and Gen-AI apps to the engineering team
• Improve how engineers develop, share, review, and merge code through best practices, automated testing, infrastructure, and processes
• Work with developers to resolve their day-to-day issues, and direct junior engineers to build scalable and self-serviceable solutions to fix or mitigate these issues

Preferred Qualifications

BA/BS Degree or higher in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or related practical experience

Benefits

• Multiple health insurance options
• Flexible time off – take what you need
• Retirement savings program with company contribution and after tax contributions
• Equity in a publicly-traded company and 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 stipend to support our remote work model
• Annual “development dollars” to support our people growth and development