Senior Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform | Marqeta

Marqeta

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Work type
Remote
Location
Oakland, CA
Salary
$200,500–$250,600 / yr
Posted
1 day ago
Nearby
99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

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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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TL;DR · Senior Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform | Marqeta

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This senior software engineering role on Marqeta’s data platform team involves building and maintaining the infrastructure, abstractions, and SDKs that other teams rely on for their data operations. Day-to-day responsibilities include designing and implementing new data abstractions, overseeing the lakehouse architecture, and ensuring reliable streaming ingestion through Kafka and CDC pipelines. The ideal candidate has extensive experience with modern data platforms like Iceberg/Delta on S3, Spark/Glue processing, and AWS services, along with deep proficiency in Python and credible skills in Go or Java. They should also have a proven track record of evolving live systems while maintaining high reliability and performance standards. This role requires strong technical leadership, the ability to influence across teams, and experience growing other engineers. Marqeta’s data platform operates at significant scale within the payments industry, addressing complex compliance requirements such as PCI-DSS and SOX.

Skills

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

What you'll do

  • Design and build new abstractions for the company's data platform.
  • Lead technical direction and set engineering standards for the data platform.
  • Write production code to solve complex problems on the data platform.
  • Enhance reliability, performance, and developer experience of live systems.
  • Influence cross-functional teams through design docs and RFCs.

What we're looking for

  • Extensive experience building data platforms rather than just pipelines.
  • Deep production expertise in modern lakehouse technologies like Iceberg/Delta on AWS services.
  • Mastery of Python and credible depth in Go or Java within a production data platform context.
  • Proven track record of evolving live infrastructure to enhance reliability, performance, and developer experience.
  • Ownership and leadership through major platform transitions from design to delivery.
  • Strong influence skills for building alignment across technical teams and writing effective design documents.

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