Cloud Database Engineer II

Marqeta

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Ontario, CanadaBritish Columbia, Canada
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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

Marqeta currently has 17 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Cloud Database Engineer II

As a Cloud Database Engineer II within the Cloud Platform Engineering team, you will manage and maintain the relational databases powering a card issuing platform. You will be responsible for automating the lifecycle of AWS Aurora instances, performing root cause analysis to minimize incidents, and collaborating with application teams to analyze database performance. Your work involves designing high availability and disaster recovery solutions while modernizing designs to improve reliability and scalability. The role requires expertise in cloud-native databases including AWS Aurora, RDS MySQL, Percona MySQL, Postgres, and DynamoDB. You will utilize infrastructure as code and automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, SpaceLift, AWS Step Function, and CloudFormation. This position focuses on solving technical challenges related to multi-AZ and multi-region support for the company's core database footprint in a high-availability environment.

What you'll do

  • Automate the lifecycle and management of AWS Aurora instances.
  • Design high availability and disaster recovery solutions for database architecture.
  • Implement multi-AZ and multi-region support for the global database footprint.
  • Develop automated systems to reduce manual work across database operations.
  • Modernize database designs to improve reliability, resiliency, and scalability.
  • Perform root cause analysis and remediation to minimize system incidents.
  • Contribute to the technical vision for relational and non-relational database migrations.

What we're looking for

  • Candidates must have a Bachelor's degree or an advanced degree if they lack relevant experience.
  • Candidates without a degree must have at least 5 years of relevant experience.
  • Candidates with a degree must have at least 3 years of experience as a backend engineer.
  • Experience with cloud-native databases, preferably on AWS, is required.
  • Experience with transactional RDBMS such as AWS Aurora, RDS MySQL, Percona MySQL, Postgres, or DynamoDB is required.
  • Experience in cloud-based high availability and disaster recovery solutions is required.
  • Experience with IaC, automation, and orchestration tools like Ansible, Terraform, SpaceLift, AWS Step Function, or CloudFormation is required.

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