Senior Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform | Marqeta

Marqeta

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Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Oakland, CA
Salary
$177,100–$221,400 / yr
Posted
1 day ago
Nearby
99+ roles within 25 mi

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Salary context

Above market

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This role $199k
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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 infrastructure, abstractions, and SDKs that other teams rely on for their data and machine learning operations. Day-to-day responsibilities include designing and implementing the lakehouse architecture, streaming ingestion pipelines, and ensuring robust data processing with tools like Iceberg/Delta on S3, Spark/Glue, Kafka, and CDC pipelines. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in modern lakehouse technologies, production depth in AWS data services, and proficiency in Python, Go, or Java. They should also have a track record of evolving live systems and leading major platform transitions while fostering collaboration across security, compliance, and consumer teams. This role demands hands-on coding on challenging problems and setting technical direction for the team.

Skills

AWS Python Spark Kafka Iceberg Delta S3 Glue EMR Airflow IAM CI/CD Java Go Docker Prometheus Grafana Git GitHub Jenkins Terraform PostgreSQL Snowflake

What you'll do

  • Design and build new abstractions for data ingestion and processing.
  • Lead technical direction and set engineering standards for the data platform.
  • Enhance reliability, performance, and developer experience of live systems.
  • Write production code to solve complex problems on the data platform.
  • Influence alignment across security, compliance, and consumer teams.

What we're looking for

  • Extensive experience building data platforms, not just pipelines.
  • Deep production expertise in modern lakehouse technologies like Iceberg/Delta on S3.
  • Mastery of Python and credible depth in Go or Java for large-scale systems.
  • Proven track record of evolving live infrastructure without disrupting dependent teams.
  • Ownership of major platform transitions from build vs. buy decisions to delivery.
  • Strong influence skills, including building alignment across technical and business units.
  • History of growing other engineers, including peers at the same level.

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