Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Marqeta is a leading company in the data platform domain, seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join their team. The role involves building and operating the data platform infrastructure, working on the lakehouse and streaming ingestion, and ensuring high reliability and performance of the platform.
Responsibilities
- The lakehouse and the streaming ingestion that feeds it. Iceberg/Delta on S3, Spark/Glue processing, Kafka and CDC pipelines, the abstractions that let other teams land data, build pipelines, and publish datasets without inventing the patterns themselves. You’d help set the multi-year technical direction, design the golden paths, and ship the work — directly, with your hands on the code that matters
- Building out the lakehouse — the patterns Marqeta will run on for years. New abstractions, new tooling, the paved road internal teams want to use
- Evolving and hardening the platform that's already in production. Reliability, performance, developer experience — improved without disrupting the teams who depend on it
- Testing confidence, release velocity. On call, blameless postmortems
Skills
- A career building data platforms, not just pipelines
- Production depth in modern lakehouse work
- Mastery of Python in a production data-platform context, with credible depth in Go or Java
- A track record of evolving live infrastructure
- Ownership of major platform transitions
- Influence as a working skill
- A history of growing other engineers
- 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
Benefits
- Annual bonuses to eligible employees, rewarding both individual performance and the success of the entire company
- 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
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