Key skills
PythonJavaGoAWSAzureGCPTerraformKubernetesDockerHelmPrometheusGrafanaDatadogIstioLinkerdService MeshCI/CDMentoringCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Marqeta is a rapidly growing company that focuses on payment solutions, and they are seeking a Staff Software Engineer - Kubernetes Operations to scale their platform. The role involves designing and maintaining Kubernetes infrastructure, leading architectural decisions, mentoring engineers, and improving system reliability and performance.
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
- 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