MARCUS WEBBStaff Engineer Distributed Systems San Francisco, CA
EXPERIENCE
Staff Engineer Dataform (Google Cloud) • San Francisco, CA 2022 – Present
Lead engineer on the pipeline orchestration team, responsible for the core scheduling and execution infrastructure that powers Dataform's SQL workflow engine. Driving technical strategy for multi-cloud execution and improved observability.
– Redesigned the job scheduling system to handle 10x throughput, reducing p99 scheduling latency from 12s to 800ms – Led integration of Dataform into Google Cloud's native tooling post-acquisition, coordinating across 4 teams – Established incident review process that reduced repeat incidents by 40% over 12 months – Mentoring 3 engineers; led hiring for 5 infrastructure roles
Senior Engineer Stripe • San Francisco, CA 2018 – 2022
Payments Infrastructure team, building and operating the systems that process card transactions at scale. On-call for one of the most critical paths in the company.
– Built the async payment processing pipeline handling 50M+ daily transactions with 99.99% availability – Owned the migration from legacy monolith to event-driven architecture for payment state management – Developed internal tooling for payment debugging that reduced median investigation time from 45 min to 8 min – Led cross-functional working group on PCI compliance for new payment methods
Software Engineer Segment • San Francisco, CA 2016 – 2018
Events infrastructure team, responsible for ingesting, routing, and delivering customer event data to hundreds of downstream integrations.
– Built Centrifuge, the real-time event delivery system handling 200K events/second with exactly-once semantics – Reduced data pipeline costs by 35% through compression and batching optimizations – On-call rotation lead; authored team's first incident runbooks and postmortem process
EDUCATIONGeorgia Institute of Technology B.S. Computer Science, Concentrations in Systems & Architecture and Information Internetworks 2010 – 2014
– Teaching Assistant for CS 2200 (Systems & Networks), 3 semesters – President, GT Linux Users Group
SKILLS
Languages: Go, Python, Java, SQL, TypeScript Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Postgres, Kafka, Redis Practices: Distributed systems design, capacity planning, incident management, technical writing