Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Marqeta is a company focused on building a robust data platform for their data and ML organization. The Senior Staff Software Engineer will be responsible for building and operating the data platform infrastructure, setting technical direction, and ensuring the reliability and performance of the platform.
Responsibilities
- Building out the lakehouse — the patterns Marqeta will run on for years
- Evolving and hardening the platform that's already in production
- Improving reliability, performance, developer experience — without disrupting the teams who depend on it
- Testing confidence, release velocity
- Participating in a rotational on-call pager duty
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
Company Overview
Marqeta is a card issuing platform that provides infrastructure and tools to help companies build and manage payment programs. It was founded in 2010, and is headquartered in Oakland, California, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://www.marqeta.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Marqeta has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 3 in 2026, 57 in 2025, 75 in 2024, 44 in 2023, 122 in 2022, 70 in 2021, 28 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.