Manager, Software Engineering - Data Infrastructure

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.

We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remotely anywhere within the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia, Canada. Quarterly travel to the United States is required. We’d love for you to join us!

• 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.

• 6+ years in data engineering/infrastructure with 2+ years leading technical teams at scale.
• Deep hands-on expertise with AWS data services (S3, EMR/Glue), Airflow, Kafka/MSK, and data catalog tools.
• Strong product thinking with experience translating customer requirements into platform capabilities.
• Proven agile delivery skills including capacity planning, sprint execution, and requirements analysis.
• Track record of operational excellence: on-call management, incident response, and achieving SLAs.
• Excellent mentoring skills with passion for developing engineers and building high-performing teams.
• Must be authorized to work in Canada with ability to travel quarterly to the United States.

• 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!

This position is for an existing vacancy.

Marqeta is on a mission to change the way money moves. We’re one of the earliest enablers of embedded finance, a market opportunity sized up in the trillions. Our card issuing platform provides unprecedented flexibility and control for companies to issue cards, authorize transactions, and manage payment operations in real time. Marqeta is powering the most well known brands in the new economy (Block, Cash App, Affirm, Instacart, Doordash, Uber, Walmart, etc). You don’t need to be a Payments expert to join the Marqeta Team, let us help you with that.  This is the opportunity of a lifetime to work with innovators around the world and unlock equitable financial access for all.

Marqeta is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, childbirth, or related medical conditions), veteran status or uniformed service member status, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship or immigration status, physical or mental disability, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information (including testing or characteristics) or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 

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