Remote Software Engineer II - Data Engineering Platform Job at Marqeta

Marqeta is the modern card issuing platform behind companies like Uber, Square, Instacart, and Klarna. Our Data Engineering Platform team owns the Snowflake infrastructure and services behind that business: the warehouse, the customer-facing reporting APIs, the ETL pipelines, and the access controls that let our customers, our regulators, and our own teams trust every transaction record.

As a Software Engineer II on the Data Engineering Platform team, you will help steward Marqeta's Snowflake data platform: the configuration-as-code, access model, schema-migration tooling, and compliance automation that every team at Marqeta touching Snowflake depends on. Around that core, you'll also contribute to the services we operate on top of the warehouse: a customer-facing financial reporting API, PCI-scoped ETL pipelines, cross-region replication and parity checks, per-customer program provisioning, and sensitive-data masking.

Our stack is Python and SQL on top of Snowflake and AWS. Everything is provisioned as code with Terraform, and data pipelines are orchestrated with Apache Airflow. Services run on AWS Lambda and API Gateway today, with active work to evaluate a migration to Kubernetes for some workloads. Everything ships through modern CI/CD in a regulated environment with strict data-handling and audit requirements.

This is a hands-on platform-engineering role with meaningful ownership from day one. You'll partner with senior engineers on production infrastructure, help shape decisions about how Marqeta operates Snowflake at scale, and have room to grow into technical leadership on the platform surfaces you own.

We work Flexible First https://www.marqeta.com/blog/2022/05/10/flexible-first. This role can be performed remotely anywhere within Ontario or British Columbia, Canada. We’d love for you to join us!

The Impact You'll Have

• Author and maintain Terraform for Snowflake resources (databases, schemas, tables, roles, warehouses, storage and notification integrations, resource monitors, tags, and network policies) across a multi-account, multi-region Snowflake footprint

• Extend our role-based access-control model, including short-lived credential provisioning and periodic access-review workflows the business relies on

• Contribute to the Snowflake schema-migration platform and CI/CD pipelines used by every team at Marqeta writing to the shared warehouse

• Work on data-retention automation that enforces policy-driven deletion, and on cost/lifecycle work that keeps Snowflake efficient at scale

• Contribute to the services we build around the warehouse: a customer-facing financial reporting API (Python on AWS Lambda + API Gateway), Apache Airflow pipelines that move PCI-scoped transaction data into Snowflake, cross-region DDL parity checks, and a sensitive-data masking service

• Author Terraform and Python for the surrounding AWS infrastructure (Lambda, IAM, networking, CloudFront/S3)

Who You Are

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent (we're open to strong candidates with less if the fundamentals are there)

• Strong proficiency in Python and working SQL knowledge

• Production experience in AWS or a comparable cloud, and comfort operating in a regulated environment

• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or comparable)

• Track record of taking a project from ambiguous problem statement to shipped code with limited supervision

• Strong written and verbal communication; you'll be reading and writing RFCs, PR descriptions, and runbooks regularly

• Commitment to code quality, testing, and documentation

Nice to haves

• Experience with Snowflake specifically, and with schema-migration tooling

• Terraform applied to data-warehouse resources (roles, warehouses, integrations, network policies)

• Exposure to RBAC modeling, IAM, or credential-management systems

• Building or operating REST APIs in production on AWS Lambda + API Gateway, Kubernetes, or comparable

• Container fundamentals (Docker) and comfort with container orchestration

• Apache Airflow or another workflow orchestration tool

• Exposure to AWS CodeBuild, CodePipeline, or comparable CI/CD systems

• Prior work in a regulated environment (PCI, SOX, HIPAA, financial services, healthcare), including any exposure to access reviews or data-retention automation

Our (typical) process

1. Application submission

2. Recruiter video call

3. Coding interview & Engineering Leader Interview

4. Virtual “Onsite” consisting of three 60 minute rounds

5. Offer!

Compensation and 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.

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, reflected in CAD, is: 92,900 - 116,100

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 vacation time

• Retirement savings program with company contribution

• Equity in a publicly-traded company

• Monthly stipend to support our remote work model

• Annual “development dollars” to support our people growth and development

• Family-forming benefits and up to 20 weeks of Parental Leave

About Marqeta

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

– 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.

– 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.

– Simplify and Innovate:

We approach challenges with curiosity and take smart risks. Innovation comes from finding better, simpler ways to achieve extraordinary outcomes.

– 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.

– 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.

Equal Employment Opportunity, Accommodations and Privacy

Marqeta is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, childbirth, or related medical conditions), veteran status or uniformed service member status, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship or immigration status, physical or mental disability, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information (including testing or characteristics) or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

Marqeta endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to submit this application, complete any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participate in the employee selection process, please submit this form https://forms.gle/Nx79JaH22WR94nBh7 with your specific accommodation request.

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