• 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
• You’ll execute on our data strategy while ensuring operational excellence for platforms processing billions in monthly transaction data
• 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

Benefits

• Praise: We believe in generously recognizing each other’s talents and contributions, and sharing the goodness we see
• Health and wellness: We cover your premiums for health, dental, and vision. Plus, your pet gets his/her/its own insurance, on us
• Flexible time off: We take time to relax and recharge when needed. We have unlimited time off for most employees and encourage an average of 5 weeks per year
• Marqeta paid family leave: We support all families. We offer 12 weeks of paid leave for all new parents and up to 20 for birthing parents. We also offer 4 weeks of caregiving leave
• 401k match: We invest in your future. We’ll match 50% of your contribution and up to 6% of your salary
• Meaningful equity: As owners of the company, we’re all in this together. Full-time employees will receive equity in Marqeta
• Giving back: We recognize we’re part of a larger community and encourage employees to donate their time and expertise to organizations they support
• Monthly stipend: You’ll get an additional monthly stipend on your paycheck to help fund your daily commute, cell phone, and/or internet connectivity
• Stock discount: The Employee Stock Purchase Program allows employees to buy discounted company stock- 6+ years in data engineering/infrastructure with 2+ years leading technical teams at scale
• Proven agile delivery skills including capacity planning, sprint execution, and requirements analysis
• Excellent mentoring skills with passion for developing engineers and building high-performing teams
• Deep hands-on expertise with AWS data services (S3, EMR/Glue), Airflow, Kafka/MSK, and data catalog tools
• Must be authorized to work in Canada with ability to travel quarterly to the United States
• Track record of operational excellence: on-call management, incident response, and achieving SLAs
• Strong product thinking with experience translating customer requirements into platform capabilities
• Experience with payments or the FinTech space- Application Submission
• Recruiter video call
• Hiring manager video call
• Virtual “Onsite” consisting of four 45-60 min video calls
• Offer!