As a Staff Engineer in the team, you will have the opportunity to shape, transform, and create an exceptional experience for engineers at Marqeta. You will identify, develop, and lead strategic investments to accelerate development iterations, enhance productivity and promote developer happiness.
You will boost developers' productivity through the successful adoption of streamlined SDLC tools & services, AI-driven tools, and drive engagement across Marqeta engineering
A successful candidate is a strong thought leader in the developer experience/productivity space and an experienced software developer. You are a self-starter who will drive projects and lead junior engineers to achieve desired outcomes.
We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remotely within the United States. We’d love for you to join us!
The Impact You’ll Have:
- Oversee the design, development, testing, deployment and craft of your team’s projects, ensuring the delivered solutions are highly relevant to developer productivity and happiness, something our community cannot imagine life without.
- Promote and influence a data-driven culture across the organization. Use objective measurement as the primary means of communication, guiding project execution and decision making, and tracking progress.
- Advocate and articulate your vision, key results and product strategy in simple and clear narratives, easy to connect and comprehend by your team, the developer community and engineering leadership.
- Build relationships across Engineering. Conduct regular DevEx surveys within Marqeta, use developers' feedback to build and prioritize a strategy and roadmap for your team, and for products that may span multiple teams and the entire company.
- Use your extensive technical expertise to mentor engineers, to promote developer productivity within your team and across Marqeta.
Who You Are:
- 10+ years of solid programming experience in Java, Python, Go, or similar programming languages to build large-scale distributed systems.
- BA/BS Degree or higher in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or related practical experience
- Experience and deep understanding of effective and efficient SDLC workflows, particularly developer-oriented workflows. Hands-on experience in developing developer infrastructure, services, and workflows.
- Deep experience in driving vision, roadmap, and adoption of Developer Portal products such as Backstage.
- Experience with build systems such as Gradle, Maven, or Make, and familiarity with continuous integration and deployment tools such as CodeBuild, Jenkins, CircleCI or Github Actions
- We primarily operate in the cloud and follow industry best practices for virtualization, and infrastructure-as-code tools. Understanding of containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible), and experience with cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS) is critical to this role.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana. Plus points for experience in measuring software development productivity and quality.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with an ability to communicate technical strategy and roadmap in a clear, precise, and actionable manner.
What You’ll Do:
- You will drive both the tactical and strategic roadmap for Marqeta Engineering, using data and customer feedback to increase efficiency, improve effectiveness, and meaningfully reduce operational toil across the organization.
- Establish and foster a data-driven engineering culture. Develop superior tooling and metrics to understand the health of our entire SDLC systems.
- Engage with key stakeholders across engineering and leverage data to establish objective measurement of Inner and Outer Loop Latency.
- Conduct DevEx surveys across the engineering organization in Marqeta, collect and analyze feedback and define areas of execution to achieve world-class developer experience for all Marqeta engineering teams.
- Ship services and tools that delight our customers! Work with your direct and adjacent teams to deliver a delightful developer experience.
- Mentor and direct junior engineers to build scalable and self-serviceable solutions.
- Aldo Hadiwijaya, Senior Engineering Manager - SDLC / Developer Experience
- Kayla Osuna
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. Compensation is aligned according to three tiers within the United States:
- National: A baseline tier that applies to most of the geographic territory of the United States.
- Premium: Slightly elevated from the National tier, and oriented toward a narrower set of higher cost-of-living areas, such as Los Angeles CA and Seattle WA
- Premium Plus: A tier for the most expensive working areas, like the San Francisco Bay area and New York City.
Visit this page or consult with a Recruiter to determine which tier would be applicable to you.
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 is:
- National: $174,700 - $218,400
- Premium: $185,800 - $232,300
- Premium Plus: $196,900 - 246,100
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 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
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 with your specific accommodation request.
Personal data that is provided as part of the application and recruitment process is processed in accordance with the Applicant Privacy Notice. Additional information for California residents can be found here.
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