Staff Salesforce Architect
Marqeta is a card-issuing and payment-processing technology company (NASDAQ: MQ) offering a modern API-driven issuing platform.
Maintainer signals as of 8/14/2026
Funding history
About Marqeta, Inc.
Marqeta provides a modern, API-driven card issuing and payment processing platform (NASDAQ: MQ) used by fintechs, banks and marketplaces for virtual and physical card programs.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own end-to-end Salesforce architecture across Sales, Service, Experience, and Revenue Cloud; lead design sessions and code reviews; configure, code, test, and deploy solutions; build integrations; guide Agentforce and AI automation; manage releases and technical backlogs; harden platform security; and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- 10+ years of Salesforce technical experience
- At least 2 years functioning in an Architect capacity
- Salesforce development, configuration, and architecture experience
- Sales Cloud experience
- Service Cloud experience
- Experience Cloud experience
- Revenue Cloud or CPQ experience
- Apex proficiency
- Lightning Web Components proficiency
- Flows proficiency
- REST and SOAP API proficiency
- Platform event proficiency
- Salesforce security hardening experience
- Code review experience
- Engineering best practices enforcement
- Technical backlog management
- External system integration architecture
- Agentforce, Einstein AI, or Salesforce AI experience
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to prioritize and complete work independently
- Salesforce Certified Technical Architect or Application/System Architect credentials preferred
- Salesforce Shield experience preferred
- SSPM or security monitoring tooling experience preferred
- Revenue Cloud or CPQ certification preferred
- Ironclad or CLM platform experience preferred
- Tableau, Snowflake, or Looker experience preferred
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end Salesforce architecture across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, and Revenue Cloud
- Lead architecture and design sessions
- Author and maintain coding and design standards
- Conduct code reviews and enforce engineering and security standards
- Build and maintain the technical backlog
- Identify gaps in system design, data integrity, automation, and integrations
- Conduct Org Health Assessments and define a continuous improvement roadmap
- Own the Salesforce release management pipeline and sandbox strategy
- Design, build, test, and deploy Salesforce solutions
- Lead Agentforce and AI-powered automation implementation
- Design and build integrations with internal and external systems
- Define testing strategies and execute tests
- Remediate Salesforce security findings
- Analyze Salesforce Shield Event Monitoring logs
- Design data classification, access controls, and auditability
- Evaluate and implement platform monitoring tools
- Implement and maintain backup and recovery solutions
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers
- Partner with the Engineering Manager to prioritize platform work
- Translate business requirements into Salesforce solutions
- Communicate technical tradeoffs to stakeholders
- Lead stakeholder demos and participate in Agile ceremonies
Benefits
- Multiple health insurance options
- Flexible time off
- Retirement savings program with company contributions 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 coaching
- Professional coaching
- Legal advice
- Monthly stipend to support remote work
- Freedom to live and work wherever you and your family thrive
