<p>As <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/marqeta">Marqeta</a>’s Senior Cloud Database Engineer, you will join our Cloud Database Engineering team wherein you will be responsible for all databases that power <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/marqeta">Marqeta</a>’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 <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/marqeta">Marqeta</a>’s next-generation, highly available and resilient Database solutions.</p><p><a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/marqeta">Marqeta</a>’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 <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/marqeta">Marqeta</a> does, and there is endless opportunity to make a sizable impact across your team and the whole business.</p><p>We work <a href="https://www.marqeta.com/blog/2022/05/10/flexible-first" rel="nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Flexible First</a>. This role can be performed remotely in the United States, only in one of our National locations, which you can review <a href="https://www.marqeta.com/company/salaryzones" rel="nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><h3><strong>The Impact You’ll Have</strong></h3><ul><li>Be part of a 24x7 on-call rotation supporting all services the Database Engineering teams owns </li><li>Contribute to the technical vision for database engineering in maintenance and Cloud migration of the relational and non-relational databases used at <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/marqeta">Marqeta</a>. </li><li>Contribute to the design of high availability and disaster recovery solutions for database architecture</li><li>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.</li><li>Keep automation as the primary focus and ensure the design is tightly coupled with various automation to reduce manual work </li><li>Work with the engineers from various teams to execute on short- and long-term technical vision.</li><li>Work on the root cause analysis, remediation and document efforts to effectively minimize incidents. </li><li>Write clear design documents and articulate technical decisions and trade-offs to peers and stakeholders. </li><li>Contribute to monitoring and alerting practices using tools like Datadog.</li><li>Mentoring junior engineers and contributing to team standards.</li></ul><h3><strong>Who You Are</strong></h3><ul><li>5+ years experience as a backend engineer and a Bachelor's degree. In lieu of a degree, 7+ years of relevant experience may suffice.</li><li>Experienced with cloud native databases (AWS p