Senior Cloud Database Engineer

Benefits

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Family-building benefits

• Fertility benefits: Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
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Not verified checked Jun 13, 2026

Salary

$144K-$180K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

401(k) match

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

39% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Senior From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Work mode

Remote From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

In-office days

0 days From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Company

Company stage

Public-company From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Equity

Offered Verified - SEC 10-K source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Senior Cloud Database Engineer Remote, USA As Marqeta's Senior Cloud Database Engineer, you will join our Cloud Database Engineering team wherein you will be responsible for all databases that power Marqeta's card issuing platform. You'll be at the heart of all things Databases: automating the lifecycle of AWS Aurora instances, working closely with application teams to analyze Database performance and innovating in building Marqeta's next-generation, highly available and resilient Database solutions. Marqeta's platform supports high cardholder availability across multiple regions globally, serving over 5 billion transactions annually. The Cloud Database Engineering team operates at the center of everything Marqeta does, and there is endless opportunity to make a sizable impact across your team and the whole business. We work Flexible First . This role can be performed remotely in the United States, only in one of our National locations, which you can review here . The Impact You'll Have - Be part of a 24x7 on-call rotation supporting all services the Database Engineering teams owns - 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 - Work on initiatives including but not limited to platform architecture, database partitioning, sharding, and the continuous evolution of the database footprint to support business growth. - Keep automation as the primary focus and ensure the design is tightly coupled with various automation to reduce manual work

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