Principal Software Engineer, Identity Platform - Remote, USA

Marqeta is on a mission to change the way money moves. We’re one of the earliest enablers of embedded finance, a market opportunity sized up in the trillions. Our card issuing platform provides unprecedented flexibility and control for companies to issue cards, authorize transactions, and manage payment operations in real time.   Marqeta is powering the most well known brands in the new economy (Block, Cash App, Affirm, Instacart, Doordash, Uber, Walmart, etc). Today nearly 8 out of 10 Americans use a product powered by Marqeta every week. This is the opportunity of a lifetime to work with innovators around the world and unlock equitable financial access for all.

Reporting to Senior Manager of Software Engineering and working with Fellows and product engineering teams,  you will be responsible for strengthening the foundation and scaling our Identity Platform systems, responsible for providing mission critical authentication & authorization capabilities for Marqeta customers. You will innovate on various aspects of the services, and APIs used by our engineering organization to deliver high quality, highly scalable, and highly secure products to our customers.

The mission of the Identity platform is to help advance the right authentication experience that delights our customers, securing our trusted Marqeta payments platform. We own and operate the core authentication & authorization systems to deliver secure, reliable and cost-effective solutions aligned with security standards. We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remotely anywhere within the USA or from Oakland, California. We’d love for you to join us!

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What you'll do

• Lead the architecture, design and implementation for critical industry standard authentication and authorization solutions across cloud platforms.
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