Cloud Database Engineer II at Marqeta | Torre

Cloud Database Engineer II

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Full-time

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Compensation
CAD92.9k - 116k/year
~USD67.3k - 84.1k/year
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Remote (for Canada residents)
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Responsibilities


We are looking for a Cloud Database Engineer II to join one of our Cloud Platform Engineering teams at Marqeta! You’ll be joining the Cloud Database Engineering team, who are responsible for all of the relational 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 99.999+% 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 the province where you reside, whether that’s Ontario, Canada or British Columbia, Canada.The Impact You'll HaveContribute 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 Are3+ 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.Nice-To-HavesExperience with payments or the FinTech spaceCompensation and BenefitsMarqeta 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.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, reflected in CAD, is: 92,900 - 116,100 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 offersMultiple health insurance optionsFlexible vacation timeRetirement savings program with company contributionEquity in a publicly-traded companyMonthly stipend to support our remote work modelAnnual “development dollars” to support our people growth and developmentFamily-forming benefits and up to 20 weeks of Parental LeaveAbout MarqetaMarqeta 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). You don’t need to be a Payments expert to join the Marqeta Team, let us help you with that.This is the opportunity of a lifetime to work with innovators around the world and unlock equitable financial access for all.