Cloud Database Engineer II

As Marqeta’s Cloud Database Engineer II, you will build and work on the next generation of database solutions. Cloud Database Engineering owns the Tier-1, 2, and 3 business-critical relational and non-relational (Processing) databases at Marqeta. In this role, you will have the opportunity to make a significant contribution to Marqeta’s next-generation, highly available and resilient database solutions.

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 to ensure 99.99% availability.
Work on initiatives including but not limited to platform architecture, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, multi-AZ, and multi-region support for the database footprint.
Keep automation as the primary focus and ensure the design is tightly coupled with various automation to reduce manual work.
Work on modernizing database designs and implementations to increase reliability, resiliency and scalability of the platform.
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.

3-5 years experience as a backend engineer and a Bachelor's degree or an advanced degree with no relevant experience. In lieu of a degree, 5+ years of relevant experience may suffice.
Experienced in Cloud native databases (AWS preferred).
Experienced with transactional RDBMS such as AWS-Aurora, AWS-RDS MySQL, Percona MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB.
Experienced in cloud based high availability and disaster recovery solutions.
Experienced in IaC, automation and orchestration tools (Ansible, Terraform, SpaceLift, AWS Step Function, CloudFormation, etc.).
You have a team-oriented approach – can effectively work on a project and cross-functionally with other teams.