Marqeta
Cloud Database Engineer II
Remote - Ontario OR British Columbia · Remote · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years as a backend engineer with a Bachelor's degree or an advanced degree and no relevant experience; alternatively, 5+ years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree may suffice.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or an advanced degree; 5+ years of relevant experience may suffice in lieu of a degree.
About the job
Automates and improves Marqeta’s cloud database platform, focusing on reliable, highly available relational and non-relational databases, cloud migration, and performance.
What you'll do
- Contribute to database architecture, cloud migration, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions.
- Automate database operations, including backup and recovery, and modernize designs for reliability and scalability.
- Collaborate across teams on technical plans and investigate, remediate, and document incident root causes.
What they ask for
- Experience with cloud-native databases and transactional databases such as AWS-Aurora, AWS-RDS MySQL, Percona MySQL, Postgres, or DynamoDB.
- Experience with cloud-based high availability and disaster recovery solutions.
- Experience with IaC, automation, and orchestration tools such as Ansible, Terraform, SpaceLift, AWS Step Function, or CloudFormation.
- Team-oriented approach and ability to work cross-functionally.
Nice to have
- Experience with payments or the FinTech space.
Pay
CAD 92,900 - 116,100 (base salary)
Tools
AWS, AWS-Aurora, AWS-RDS MySQL, Percona MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB, Ansible, Terraform
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