Senior Cloud Database Engineer

The Impact You’ll Have

• Be part of a 24x7 on-call rotation supporting all services the Database Engineering teams owns
• Contribute to the technical vision for database engineering in maintenance and Cloud migration of the relational and non-relational databases used at Marqeta.
• Contribute to the design of high availability and disaster recovery solutions for database architecture
• Work on initiatives including but not limited to platform architecture, database partitioning, sharding, and the continuous evolution of the database footprint to support business growth.
• Keep automation as the primary focus and ensure the design is tightly coupled with various automation to reduce manual work
• Work with the engineers from various teams to execute on short- and long-term technical vision.
• Work on the root cause analysis, remediation and document efforts to effectively minimize incidents.
• Write clear design documents and articulate technical decisions and trade-offs to peers and stakeholders.
• Contribute to monitoring and alerting practices using tools like Datadog.
• Mentoring junior engineers and contributing to team standards.

Who You Are

• 5+ years experience as a backend engineer and a Bachelor's degree. In lieu of a degree, 7+ years of relevant experience may suffice.
• Experienced with cloud native databases (AWS preferred), including transactional RDBMS such as Aurora, MySQL, and Postgres, as well as NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB or MongoDB.
• Experienced in cloud based high availability, disaster recovery, and distributed systems including replication and failover.
• Experienced in IaC, automation and orchestration tools (Terraform, AWS Step Function, etc.).
• Experienced CI/CD — pipelines, job runners, deployment automation
• Solid understanding of database administration: internals, query tuning, indexing, and performance metrics.
• Proficient in Python.
• Experience with Linux commands and shell scripting
• Experienced in monitoring and observability tools: Datadog preferred
• Strong sense of ownership — you follow through, raise issues proactively, and take accountability for your work.
• Curious and committed to continuous learning — you actively keep up with industry trends and apply new knowledge to your work.
• You have a team-oriented approach – can effectively work on a project and cross-functionally with other teams.

Nice-To-Haves

• Logical/physical migrations + blue-green switchovers (current strategic work)
• Database fleet management.
• AI tooling fluency
• Basics in Java
• Experience with payments or the FinTech space
• Experience with ProxySQL and/or RDS Proxy