Staff Software Engineer

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.

Marqeta, the trailblazing fintech company, is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Staff Software Engineer to join our Cloud and Infrastructure Services team. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Cloud and Infrastructure Services team, you will be instrumental in shaping the foundation of our fintech solutions. Your mission will be to drive innovation, scalability, and reliability within our cloud-based infrastructure. Are you passionate about reshaping the future of financial technology on the cloud? Are you excited about building robust, scalable, and cutting-edge infrastructure services that power groundbreaking fintech solutions? If you're ready to lead the charge in transforming the fintech landscape, this is the opportunity you've been waiting for!

We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remotely within the United States. We’d love for you to join us!

What you'll do

• You will be a part of cloud architecture excellence, design, build, and maintain resilient and scalable infrastructure that supports the core payments platform.  Work with key stakeholders in shaping our cloud policies,  write IaC modules that align with best practices and implement detection capabilities for non compliant architecture.  
• You will innovate solutions, drive tooling innovation that accelerates developer productivity and reduces toil.  
• You have technical leadership qualities and can mentor and guide a team of talented engineers, providing technical expertise and encourage continuous learning and professional growth around you.  
• You will be a part of building continuous integration and deployment, implement CI/CD best practices to streamline and accelerate the development and deployment of infrastructure services.
• You are an automation champion and can develop and maintain tools for provisioning, monitoring, and managing cloud resources, optimizing system performance and resource utilization.  You will be instrumental in automating redundant efforts in order to make them safer and more compliant.  
• Work in close collaboration with our security teams to ensure the highest levels of security and compliance for our cloud infrastructure.  
• Play a key role in incident management, resolving critical issues promptly, and driving post-incident analyses to prevent future occurrences.

  What we're looking for

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 5 years of hands-on experience in cloud-based infrastructure design and development, with expertise on AWS or Azure.
• Proficiency in programming languages and scripting for automation (e.g., Python, Go, Bash).
• Proven track record of successfully designing and delivering highly available and scalable cloud-based solutions ideally in mission critical environments. 
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze and troubleshoot complex cloud infrastructure issues.
• Familiarity with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform).  
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills. You feel comfortable authoring high quality design documentation and presenting to sr engineers and leadership. 

Nice to haves

• Experience with scaling large, transactional systems and data sharding.
• Experience with payments or the FinTech space
• Experience with Microservices
• Experience with Java Spring Boot
• Experience in software delivery pipelines, CI/CD systems, and software deployment and orchestration systems such as Kubernetes and/or Docker
• Contributions to technical blogs, a public Github repo, or to open source projects

Compensation and Benefits

Marqeta is a Flex First company which allows you to choose your best working environment, whether that be from home or at a company office. To support Flex First, we calibrate pay to a competitive value according to working location. Compensation is aligned according to three tiers within the United States:

• National: A baseline tier that applies to most of the geographic territory of the United States.
• Premium: Slightly elevated from the National tier, and oriented toward a narrower set of higher cost-of-living areas, such as Los Angeles CA and Seattle WA
• Premium Plus: A tier for the most expensive working areas, like the San Francisco Bay area and New York City.

Visit this page or consult with a Recruiter to determine which tier would be applicable to you.

When determining salaries, we consider several factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior experience, and work location. The new-hire base salary range for this position is:

• National: $121,950 - $162,600
• Premium: $137,250-  $183,000
• Premium Plus: $152,475- $203,300

We also believe in recognizing the contributions of our people. That's why we award annual bonuses to eligible employees, rewarding both individual performance and the success of the entire company.

Along with monetary compensation, Marqeta offers

• Multiple health insurance options
• Flexible time off – take what you need
• Retirement savings program with company contribution
• 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