Senior Cloud Database Engineer

Marqeta
📍 toronto, on, Canada 💼 Full-time 🕒 Posted June 09, 2026

Job Description

Requirements

  • 5+ years experience as a backend engineer and a Bachelor's degree. In lieu of a degree, 7+ years of relevant experience may suffice
  • Experienced with cloud native databases (AWS preferred), including transactional RDBMS such as Aurora, MySQL, and Postgres, as well as NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB or MongoDB
  • Experienced in cloud based high availability, disaster recovery, and distributed systems including replication and failover
  • Experienced in IaaC, automation and orchestration tools (Terraform, AWS Step Function, etc.)
  • Experienced CI/CD — pipelines, job runners, deployment automation
  • Solid understanding of database administration: internals, query tuning, indexing, and performance metrics
  • Proficient in Python
  • Experience with Linux commands and shell scripting
  • Experienced in monitoring and observability tools: Datadog preferred
  • Strong sense of ownership — you f...

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Job Details

  • Location toronto, on
  • Job Type Full-time
  • Category Other-General
  • Posted Date June 09, 2026
  • Application Deadline July 19, 2026