Cloud Database Engineer II

As Marqeta’s Cloud Database Engineer II, you will build and work on the next generation of database solutions. Cloud Database Engineering owns the Tier-1, 2, and 3 business-critical relational and non-relational (Processing) databases at Marqeta. In this role, you will have the opportunity to make a significant contribution to Marqeta’s next-generation, highly available and resilient database solutions.

We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remotely anywhere within the United States or from our Oakland office]. We’d love for you to join us!

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

• 3-5 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.

Your Manager

• Arvind Taneja

Recruiter For This Role

• Kelly Hardesty

Typical Process

• Application Submission
• Recruiter phone call
• Hiring manager video call
• Virtual “Onsite” consisting of 4-5, 45 min calls
• Offer!

Compensation and Benefits

Marqeta is a Flex First company which allows you to choose your best working environment, whether …