Manager, Software Engineering - Data Infrastructure
Marqeta · Toronto, Canada | Vancouver, Canada · ML, AI, Data Platform
About this role
Marqeta is hiring a manager-level Engineering Manager in the software engineering function as a remote position. The posting calls out experience with AWS, Kafka, Spark, Airflow and roughly 6+ years of relevant work.
- Role
- Engineering Manager
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- manager
- Track
- hybrid
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Toronto, Canada | Vancouver, Canada
- Work mode
- Remote
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Department
- ML, AI, Data Platform
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Job description
from Marqeta careersAs 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!
The Impact You'll Have
- 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.