Manager, Software Engineering Data Infrastructure
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8 hours ago
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
As Manager of Data Infrastructure reporting to the Director of Data Engineering you will lead 5-6 engineers operating critical data platforms that power our AI and analytics strategy. This newly created hands-on leadership role combines technical depth with people management requiring you to mentor your team drive agile delivery and apply product thinking to infrastructure. Youll execute on our data strategy while ensuring operational excellence for platforms processing billions in monthly transaction data.
The Impact Youll Have
- Lead 5-6 engineers through hands-on technical mentoring performance management and career development while fostering operational excellence.
- Own data lake infrastructure operations (S3 Airflow Kafka/MSK Spark/Glue) maintaining 99.5% uptime and managing on-call rotation.
- Drive agile delivery with sprint planning capacity planning and requirements analysis to ship infrastructure improvements quarterly.
- Apply product thinking by gathering customer requirements from data teams prioritizing platform features and measuring adoption success.
- Execute technical roadmaps that deliver on data strategy translating vision into concrete project plans with measurable outcomes.
- Partner with security/compliance on governance controls and work with vendors on technical integrations and platform optimization.
Who You Are
- 6 years in data engineering/infrastructure with 2 years leading technical teams at scale.
- Deep hands-on expertise with AWS data services (S3 EMR/Glue) Airflow Kafka/MSK and data catalog tools.
- Strong product thinking with experience translating customer requirements into platform capabilities.
- Proven agile delivery skills including capacity planning sprint execution and requirements analysis.
- Track record of operational excellence: on-call management incident response and achieving SLAs.
- Excellent mentoring skills with passion for developing engineers and building high-performing teams.
- Must be authorized to work in Canada with ability to travel quarterly to the United States.
Nice-To-Haves
- Experience with payments or the FinTech space.
Typical Process
- Application Submission
- Recruiter video call
- Hiring manager video call
- Virtual Onsite consisting of four 45-60 min video calls
- 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: 156800 - 196000.
We also believe in recognizing the contributions of our people. Thats 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
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- IT Experience
- Project Management Methodology
- Data Center Experience
- LAN
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Computer Networking
- Visio
- ITIL
- Project Management
- SAN
- Microsoft Project
- Project Management Lifecycle
About Company
Transform your business with Marqeta's modern card issuing platform. Our open API platform allows businesses to instantly issue cards and process payments.
