Staff Software Engineer - Kubernetes Operations
About the position As Marqeta’s Staff Software Engineer - Kubernetes Operations, you'll be instrumental in scaling our platform to meet the demands of our rapidly growing business and help architect solutions that power millions of transactions daily. We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remotely in the United States, only in one of our National locations, which you can review here.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain highly available Kubernetes infrastructure at scale
- Lead architecture decisions for container orchestration and cloud-native services
- Mentor engineers on Kubernetes best practices, container security, and cloud infrastructure
- Develop automation tools and improve CI/CD pipelines for containerized applications
- Collaborate with platform and application teams to optimize workload performance
- Drive initiatives to improve system reliability, observability, and disaster recovery
- Participate in on-call rotation and incident response
- Contribute to the technical roadmap and infrastructure strategy
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- 3+ years of hands-on production experience with Kubernetes
- Strong understanding of container technologies (Docker, containerd)
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm, or similar)
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (Go, Python, Java)
- Deep knowledge of networking, security, and distributed systems
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
Nice-to-haves
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
- Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd)
- Knowledge of observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
- Experience in fintech or payments industry
- Contributions to open-source Kubernetes ecosystem
Benefits
- Multiple health insurance options
- Flexible time off
- Retirement savings program with company contribution and after tax contributions
- Equity in a publicly-traded company
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Family-forming benefits
- Fertility support
- Up to 20 weeks of Parental Leave
- Free therapy sessions
- Financial and professional coaching
- Legal advice
- Monthly stipend to support our remote work model
- Annual “development dollars” to support our people growth and development