Senior Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure | Marqeta

Marqeta

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Work type
Remote
Location
ON, Canada · BC, Canada
Salary
$116,000–$145,000 / yr
Posted
28 days ago

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Below market

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This role $130k
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This role pays less than 92% of similar roles. Most pay $143,982–$222,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $130k versus about $183k for comparable roles.

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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 19 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $128,700–$160,850 across 14 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure | Marqeta

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As a Senior Software Engineer on Marqeta's Data Infrastructure team, you will independently drive the development of data lakehouse, streaming, orchestration, and catalog platforms that power analytics and AI across the company. Your responsibilities include defining and delivering well-scoped milestones for projects, leading design for small-to-medium components, and ensuring the reliability, performance, and developer experience of your assigned component. You will work with Python, SQL, Apache Kafka, Spark, Airflow, AWS, Terraform, and other core data technologies to build scalable software platforms. Additionally, you will participate in on-call rotations and mentor less-experienced team members. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of relevant experience, strong proficiency in Python and distributed systems, and a track record of building correct, maintainable software components while working with cross-functional stakeholders. Experience in the payments or FinTech space is a plus.

Skills

Python SQL Apache Kafka Apache Spark Apache Airflow AWS Terraform Monitoring Alerting CI/CD Parquet Hudi Delta Lake Infrastructure-as-Code Cross-functional collaboration Quality focus Payments experience Apache Iceberg Debezium Kubernetes Data catalog tooling

What you'll do

  • Define and deliver well-scoped milestones for data infrastructure projects.
  • Lead design for small-to-medium components of the data infrastructure.
  • Own a component's reliability, performance, and developer experience.
  • Independently identify gaps and propose solutions to address them.
  • Write clear, tested code that is flexible and adaptable to changing requirements.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience or equivalent relevant work experience.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and SQL for production contexts.
  • Experience with distributed systems, Apache Kafka, Spark, Airflow, and modern table formats.
  • Production experience with AWS or another major cloud provider.
  • Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
  • Ability to decompose business problems into multi-component technical solutions.

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