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Marcus Chen

Marcus Chen

Principal Infra → payments platform SRE lead
Principal Infrastructure Engineer at StripeSeattle, WA · America/Los_Angeles16 yrs · IC6
ScreeningWarmReferralPassiveUS citizen
AI match score
89/ 100
Strong
Last touched1mo ago
OwnerTomás Herrera
Comp expectation$460,000–$620,000
Flight risklow

Current role

Principal Infrastructure Engineer · Mar 2021—Present (5 yr 1 mo)

ST
Stripe
Fintech · enterprise · Team of 7

Owned headcount, roadmap, and delivery for the team.

Selected accomplishments

  • Shipped a new multi-region Postgres topology
    RPO brought from 72s to sub-second

    Designed and rolled out logical-replication-based failover with read-router; passed two GameDays.

  • Drove MTTR from incident to recovery down sharply
    MTTR −27% quarter-over-quarter

    Introduced on-call guardrails, paging hygiene, and runbook automation; increased weekend uptime to 99.99%.

  • Led the org-wide Kubernetes upgrade
    21 clusters upgraded with 0 customer incidents

    Authored the rolling-drain playbook, aligned stakeholders across SRE and platform, executed over 6 weeks.

Work history

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Activities18
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