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Marqeta

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Work type: Remote
Location: Remote
Posted: 3 days ago

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About Marqeta

Marqeta is a modern card issuing platform that provides open API technology for businesses to create, issue, and manage customized payment cards, powering payment programs for fintech companies and enterprises. Industry: Financial Technology & Card Issuing

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Join our software engineering team as a senior staff engineer responsible for building and operating the data platform at Marqeta. You will design and implement the lakehouse infrastructure, streaming ingestion pipelines using Iceberg/Delta on S3, Spark/Glue processing, Kafka, and CDC tools, ensuring other teams can efficiently land data and build pipelines without reinventing solutions. Utilize Python and have credible depth in Go or Java to develop robust abstractions and tooling for internal use. Work closely with the Director of Data Engineering and security teams to set technical direction and ensure engineering excellence through hands-on coding, design reviews, and on-call responsibilities. Ideal candidates have a decade of experience building data platforms, modern lakehouse work production depth, and a track record of evolving live infrastructure while maintaining reliability and performance for dependent teams.

Skills

AWS S3 Glue EMR Spark Kafka Iceberg Delta Python Go Java Airflow CI/CD Terraform Docker Prometheus Grafana PCI-DSS SOX SOC 2 Debezium Kafka Connect DataHub Amundsen Collibra

What you'll do

Design and build new data platform abstractions for internal teams.
Lead the modernization of the lakehouse infrastructure on AWS services.
Enhance reliability, performance, and developer experience in live systems.
Write production code to solve complex problems on the data platform.
Influence technical direction and alignment across security and consumer teams.

What we're looking for

Extensive experience building data platforms rather than individual pipelines.
Deep production expertise in modern lakehouse technologies like Iceberg/Delta on AWS services.
Mastery of Python and credible depth in Go or Java for large-scale data platforms.
Proven track record of evolving live infrastructure without disrupting dependent teams.
Ownership of major platform transitions from build vs. buy decisions to delivery.
Strong ability to influence technical alignment across multiple engineering teams.
History of growing and mentoring other engineers, including peers at the same level.

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