Marqeta
card issuing platform
SeniorCloudDatabaseEngineer
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“Senior Cloud Database Engineer at Marqeta. Skills: Cloud Database Engineering, AWS Aurora, RDBMS, NoSQL, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, IaC, Automation, Python, Database Administration, Performance Tuning. automating the lifecycle of AWS Aurora instances. working closely with application teams to analyze Database performance”
What You'll Achieve.
automating the lifecycle of AWS Aurora instances; building Marqeta’s next-generation, highly available and resilient Database solutions; support business growth; reduce manual work; effectively minimize incidents
Industry & Context.
analyze Database performance; root cause analysis; remediation
24x7 on-call rotation
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years experience as a backend engineer, Bachelor's degree, Experienced with cloud native databases (AWS preferred), Experienced with transactional RDBMS such as Aurora, MySQL, and Postgres, Experienced with NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB or MongoDB, Experienced in cloud based high availability, Experienced in disaster recovery, Experienced in distributed systems including replication and failover, Experienced in IaaC, Experienced in automation and orchestration tools (Terraform, AWS Step Function, etc. ), Experienced CI/CD — pipelines, job runners, deployment automation, Solid understanding of database administration: internals, query tuning, indexing, and performance metrics, Proficient in Python, Experience with Linux commands and shell scripting, Experienced in monitoring and observability tools: Datadog preferred, sense of ownership, Curious and committed to continuous learning, team-oriented approach
Nice to Have
Logical/physical migrations + blue-green switchovers, Database fleet management, AI tooling fluency, Basics in Java, Experience with payments or the FinTech space, Experience with ProxySQL and/or RDS Proxy, 7+ years of relevant experience may suffice (in lieu of a degree)
What You'll Do.
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
contribute to the technical vision for database engineering in maintenance and Cloud migration of the relational and non-relational databases
contribute to the design of high availability and disaster recovery solutions for database architecture
work on initiatives including but not limited to platform architecture
database partitioning
and the continuous evolution of the database footprint to support business growth
keep automation as the primary focus and ensure the design is tightly coupled with various automation to reduce manual work
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
write clear design documents and articulate technical decisions and trade-offs to peers and stakeholders
contribute to monitoring and alerting practices using tools like Datadog
mentoring junior engineers and contributing to team standards
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
working closely with application teams; Work with the engineers from various teams; articulate technical decisions and trade-offs to peers and stakeholders; contribute to team standards; work on a project and cross-functionally with other teams; Win as a Team: embracing diverse perspectives and pushing each other to raise the bar. We lead with humility and set aside hierarchy to work as a team.
Communication Scope
articulate technical decisions and trade-offs to peers and stakeholders
Full Job Description
As Marqeta’s Senior Cloud Database Engineer, you will join our Cloud Database Engineering team wherein you will be responsible for all 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 high 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 Ontario or British Columbia, Canada. We’d love for you to join us! The Impact You’ll Have Be part of a 24x7 on-call rotation supporting all services the Database Engineering teams owns 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 Work on initiatives including but not limited to platform architecture, database partitioning, sharding, and the continuous evolution of the database footprint to support business growth. Keep automation as the primary focus and ensure the design is tightly coupled with various automation to reduce manual work 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. Write clear design documents and articulate technical decisions and trade-offs to peers and stakeholders. Contribute to monitoring and alerting practices using tools like Datadog. M
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