Marqeta - Senior Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform
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Requirements
• We care more about demonstrated work than years on paper, but the experience this role asks for typically takes around a decade to accumulate. • A career building data platforms, not just pipelines. You can name the abstractions you've designed, the teams that adopted them, and the problems they solved. If most of your last several years has been writing transformations rather than building the system transformations run on, this isn't the right shape. • A career building data platforms, not just pipelines. • Production depth in modern lakehouse work. Iceberg or Delta in production. Strong fluency in the surrounding stack: AWS data services (S3, Glue, EMR), Spark, Airflow, Kafka, IAM boundaries for multi-tenant data access. You don't need depth in all of it — you need real depth in the lakehouse and credible engagement with the rest. • Production depth in modern lakehouse work. • Mastery of Python in a production data-platform context, with credible depth in Go or Java. Idioms, ecosystem, performance characteristics, the parts that bite at scale. The ability to adopt the best tool for the job. • Mastery of Python in a production data-platform context, with credible depth in Go or Java. • A track record of evolving live infrastructure. Improving reliability, performance, and DX on systems that real teams depend on, sequenced so the work doesn't disrupt them. • A track record of evolving live infrastructure. • Ownership of major platform transitions. Build vs. buy, migration design, risk management, all the way through to delivery. You've led at least one of these end-to-end and can talk through what went right, what didn't, and what you'd do differently. • Ownership of major platform transitions. • Influence as a working skill. You build alignment across platform, security, and consumer teams. You write design docs and RFCs people actually read. You can hold a strong technical position and update on evidence. • Influence as a working skill. • A history of growing other engineers — including peers at your level. The team gets stronger because you're on it. • A history of growing other engineers • Helpful, not required: payments or fintech context (PCI-DSS, SOX, SOC 2). CDC tooling experience (Debezium, Kafka Connect). Data governance tooling (DataHub, Amundsen, Collibra). Public technical writing or open-source contributions to data infrastructure. • Typical Process • Typical Process • Application Submission • Recruiter Video Call • Coding Interview & Hiring Manager Interview • Virtual "Onsite" consisting of four 45-60 min video calls
Benefits
• Marqeta is a Flex First company which allows you to choose your best working environment, whether that be from home or at a company office. To support Flex First, we calibrate pay to a competitive value according to working location. Compensation is aligned according to three tiers within the United States: • National: A baseline tier that applies to most of the geographic territory of the United States. • National: • Premium: Slightly elevated from the National tier, and oriented toward a narrower set of higher cost-of-living areas, such as Los Angeles CA and Seattle WA • Premium: • Premium Plus: A tier for the most expensive working areas, like the San Francisco Bay area and New York City. • Premium Plus: • Visit this page or consult with a Recruiter to determine which tier would be applicable to you. • When determining salaries, we consider several factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior experience, and work location. The new-hire base salary range for this position is: • National: 200,500 - 250,600 • Premium: 210,200 - 262,800 • Premium Plus: 220,000 - 275,000 • We also believe in recognizing the contributions of our people. That's why we award annual bonuses to eligible employees, rewarding both individual performance and the success of the entire company. • Along with monetary compensation, Marqeta offers • Multiple health insurance options • Flexible time off – take what you need • Retirement savings program with company contribution and after tax contributions • Equity in a publicly-traded company and an Employee Stock Purchase Program • Family-forming benefits, fertility support, and up to 20 weeks of Parental Leave • Free therapy sessions, financial and professional coaching, and legal advice • Monthly stipend to support our remote work model • Annual “development dollars” to support our people growth and development • Through Flex First, the freedom to live and work wherever you and your family thrive • Marqeta is on a mission to change the way money moves. We’re one of the earliest enablers of embedded finance, a market opportunity sized up in the trillions. Our card issuing platform provides unprecedented flexibility and control for companies to issue cards, authorize transactions, and manage payment operations in real time. Marqeta is powering the most well known brands in the new economy (Block, Cash App, Affirm, Instacart, Doordash, Uber, Walmart, etc). You don’t need to be a Payments expert to join the Marqeta Team, let us help you with that. This is the opportunity of a lifetime to work with innovators around the world and unlock equitable financial access for all. • Marqeta’s Values • Marqeta’s Values • – Solve for the Customer: With a deep understanding of our customers' business and empathy for their needs, we deliver products and services that drive their success. Earning and keeping their trust guides everything we do. • – Solve for the Customer: • – Do What's Right: Knowing businesses and livelihoods depend on us, we pursue solutions that disrupt responsibly and deliver high-quality results that our customers count on. We own our work from start to finish. • – Do What's Right: • – Simplify and Innovate: We approach challenges with curiosity and take smart risks. Innovation comes from finding better, simpler ways to achieve extraordinary outcomes. • – Simplify and Innovate: • – Win as a Team: We succeed together by embracing diverse perspectives and pushing each other to raise the bar. We lead with humility and set aside hierarchy to work as a team. • – Win as a Team: • – Make it Count: We drive forward with focus and agility. With a sense of urgency and purpose, we get the job done, and done right. • – Make it Count: • Equal Employment Opportunity, Accommodations and Privacy
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