Senior Principal Software Engineer - Infrastructure (IaC)

Position Summary

Our Platform is built by developers for developers! Marqeta’s platform enables payment authorization decisioning, cardholder data security, instant card issuing, in-app provisioning directly to digital wallets, and real-time funding with our exclusive Just-in-Time (JIT) funding. 

In the Engineering Fundamentals team, you will build and operate the systems and tooling that create our infrastructure and developer experiences. You will be a key contributor to our future capability to scale our technology ahead of our customer demands and move forward with confidence, security, and availability. The entirety of the Marqeta engineering organization depends upon the experiences that we create and curate so that our teammates can do the best work of our lives and have fun while building. You will help to innovate on various aspects of the platform used by our engineering organization to deliver high-quality, highly scalable, and highly secure products to our customers

As a Senior Principal Engineer, we have a number of teams that work on challenges like:   

• Building and driving the technical vision for new development platforms used across Marqeta to deliver our software
• Card Fulfillment, Cases/Disputes Management, Tokenization, Commercial Payments, On-boarding, SDKs
• Building a modern credit-issuing service to power the next generation of payment innovators
• Multiplying the force of Marqeta’s product engineering by developing common foundational systems that are incorporated into all of Marqeta’s products
• Web applications & products around fraud

What You'll Do

• Work with the organization and your product manager to build a long-term technical vision for Marqeta’s software development platform.
• Bring a customer-focused mindset to infrastructure development that helps focus the team on building tools that create meaningful, measurable velocity for Marqeta’s engineers.
• Build delightful platform tooling that helps Marqeta engineers focus on solving business problems, not infrastructure problems.
• Help the team prioritize and ship features in line with your team’s roadmap.
• Raise the skill sets of those around you and make Marqeta better through your presence. Mentor other engineers on the team, drawing on your experience to provide thoughtful direction.
• Apply and evangelize modern best practices in your software designs and implementations.

What We're Looking For

• We are hiring Software Engineers with 15+ years of engineering experience. 
• We use Java, Python, Go, and Terraform throughout the business but welcome experience in different programming languages.
• Experience both building and using software delivery pipelines, CI/CD systems, and software deployment and orchestration systems such as Kubernetes.
• Experience building scalable software platforms.
• Deep knowledge of cloud-first design principles and experience architecting, building and operating highly available systems. 
• A strong passion for writing code with excellent quality and test coverage.
• Strong communication skills - including the ability to listen to the needs of others and comprehend complex matters, articulate issues in a clear and concise manner, and present effectively in both oral and written presentations to all levels in the organization.
• Team-oriented approach – can effectively lead a project or participate as an effective team member as well as work cross-functionally with other organizations.

Nice-To-Haves

• Experience with Payments
• Having previously guided the transition of an organization from monolith-based development to microservices-based development