Senior Manager, Network Operations

Take full ownership of Marqeta's corporate network infrastructure, from our Oakland HQ to every remote office location

Oversee the Cisco Meraki platform — wireless access points, security appliances, and network management — ensuring everything just works

Deliver secure, reliable Wi-Fi access across all corporate locations, setting the connectivity bar for a distributed workforce

Own ISP relationships and circuit management, ensuring our HQ and office locations always have the bandwidth and redundancy they need

Partner with the security team to implement and uphold corporate network security policies that protect the business without slowing it down

Remove friction for our hybrid workforce — ensuring seamless, consistent connectivity whether employees are on-site or remote

Plan ahead, managing corporate network capacity so infrastructure never becomes a bottleneck as Marqeta grows

Cultivate strategic relationships with colocation providers like Equinix and key network hardware vendors, keeping Marqeta's infrastructure competitive

Negotiate contracts and SLAs that meaningfully optimize both cost and performance outcomes

Translate network strategy into business value by aligning capabilities with cross-functional stakeholder needs

Bridge the gap between technical and non-technical audiences — communicating complex concepts and project progress with clarity and confidence

You bring 7+ years of network engineering experience in production environments and at least 3 years leading and developing technical teams

You're a hands-on Cisco expert — deeply comfortable with switching platforms and routing protocols like BGP and OSPF, and confident in your ability to operate at both a strategic and technical level

You've architected and managed Palo Alto Networks firewall deployments and understand how network security decisions ripple across an organization

You have deep, practical knowledge of AWS cloud networking — VPCs, Transit Gateways, Direct Connect, CloudFront, Route53 — and know how to design for resilience at scale

You have a track record of owning and maintaining high-availability networks at 99.9%+ uptime, and you take that standard personally

Infrastructure-as-code is part of how you work — you're experienced with Terraform and understand the value of treating infrastructure like software

You think in systems and automate by instinct — with a strong foundation in network automation, scripting, and DevOps practices that help your team move faster with fewer errors

You're as comfortable in a vendor negotiation or colocation facility conversation as you are in a technical design review

You hold a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or have built equivalent expertise through hands-on experience

Experience working in payments, financial services, or another highly regulated industry — you already understand what it means to operate in a high-stakes compliance environment

Familiarity with PCI-DSS or other compliance frameworks, and how they shape network design and security decisions

Industry certifications such as CCIE, CCNP, PCNSE, or AWS Advanced Networking that demonstrate your depth of expertise

Hands-on experience with network observability tools and practices, and a habit of using data to stay ahead of issues before they become incidents

A background in leading infrastructure modernization or cloud migration initiatives — you've navigated the complexity before and know how to bring teams along for the journey

Experience with SD-WAN technologies and an understanding of how they fit into a modern, distributed network architecture

Application Submission

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Hiring manager video call

Virtual “Onsite” consisting of 4-5, 45 min calls

Offer!

Marqeta is on a mission to change the way money moves. We’re one of the earliest enablers of embedded finance, a market opportunity sized up in the trillions. Our card issuing platform provides unprecedented flexibility and control for companies to issue cards, authorize transactions, and manage payment operations in real time. Marqeta is powering the most well known brands in the new economy (Block, Cash App, Affirm, Instacart, Doordash, Uber, Walmart, etc). You don’t need to be a Payments expert to join the Marqeta Team, let us help you with that. This is the opportunity of a lifetime to work with innovators around the world and unlock equitable financial access for all.

– Solve for the Customer: With a deep understanding of our customers' business and empathy for their needs, we deliver products and services that drive their success. Earning and keeping their trust guides everything we do.

– Do What's Right: Knowing businesses and livelihoods depend on us, we pursue solutions that disrupt responsibly and deliver high-quality results that our customers count on. We own our work from start to finish.

– Simplify and Innovate: We approach challenges with curiosity and take smart risks. Innovation comes from finding better, simpler ways to achieve extraordinary outcomes.

– Win as a Team: We succeed together by embracing diverse perspectives and pushing each other to raise the bar. We lead with humility and set aside hierarchy to work as a team.

– Make it Count: We drive forward with focus and agility. With a sense of urgency and purpose, we get the job done, and done right.

Marqeta is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, childbirth, or related medical conditions), veteran status or uniformed service member status, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship or immigration status, physical or mental disability, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information (including testing or characteristics) or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

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