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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 handson 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. Wed love for you to join us! The Impact You'll Have Lead 5-6 engineers through handson 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 oncall 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. Who You Are 6+ years in data engineering/infrastructure with 2+ years leading technical teams at scale. Deep handson 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: oncall management, incident response, and achieving SLAs. Excellent mentoring skills with passion for developing engineers and building highperforming teams. Must be authorized to work in Canada with ability to travel quarterly to the United States. Nice-To-Haves Experience with payments or the FinTech space. Typical Process Application Submission Virtual Onsite consisting of four 4560 min video calls Offer! Compensation and Benefits Marqeta is a Flex First company which allows you to choose your best working environment, whether that be from home or at a company office. To support Flex First, we calibrate pay to a competitive value according to working location. When determining salaries, we consider several factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior experience, and work location. The newhire base salary range for this position, reflected in CAD, is: 156,800 - 196,000. We also believe in recognizing the contributions of our people. That's why we award annual bonuses to eligible employees, rewarding both individual performance and the success of the entire company. Along with monetary compensation, Marqeta offers Multiple health insurance options Flexible vacation time Retirement savings program with company contribution Equity in a publiclytraded company Monthly stipend to support our remote work model Annual development dollars to support our people growth and development Familyforming benefits and up to 20 weeks of Parental Leave MQ - EEOC Voluntary Questions At Marqeta, we strive to live our value of Win as a Team, where we seek various opinions and experiences as we build opportunities around equity, inclusion, and belonging. We ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. 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