Control Plane Transactional Datastore Architect

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About the Role

We are seeking a senior Control Plane Transactional Datastore Architect to design and evolve highly reliable distributed systems that manage critical cloud infrastructure data and metadata. This role focuses on correctness, durability, consistency, security, and operational reliability at scale. The successful candidate will architect foundational services responsible for maintaining infrastructure state, coordinating distributed systems, and protecting critical data from corruption or loss. This position supports a mission-critical control plane platform where transactional correctness and data integrity are paramount. Success is measured by reliability, correctness, and the ability to safely operate foundational infrastructure services where data loss or inconsistency is unacceptable. This is not a feature-development role. The emphasis is on distributed transactions, consensus algorithms, replication, durability, and correctness rather than building new application features.

Responsibilities

• Design highly available control plane services that manage critical infrastructure state and metadata.
• Architect distributed systems that provide strong consistency, durability, and transactional correctness.
• Define strategies for replication, recovery, fault tolerance, security, and data integrity.
• Lead architecture decisions involving distributed transactions, consensus mechanisms, and coordination services.
• Design systems that maintain correctness under failure conditions and large-scale operational events.
• Establish reliability, durability, observability, and operational safety standards for foundational infrastructure services.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure safe operation of globally distributed systems.
• Drive technical direction for metadata management, control plane architecture, transactional infrastructure, and distributed state management.
• Evaluate architectural tradeoffs with a focus on correctness, durability, and long-term operational stability.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture.
• Significant experience designing control plane, metadata management, or distributed data systems.
• Strong understanding of distributed transactions, replication, consensus algorithms, and recovery mechanisms.
• Experience building systems where correctness, durability, and data integrity are business-critical requirements.
• Expertise in strong consistency models and transactional guarantees.
• Proven success designing highly available, fault-tolerant distributed services.
• Strong understanding of stateful distributed systems and transaction processing.
• Working knowledge of relational database concepts and transaction management principles.
• Strong architectural judgment and ability to evaluate tradeoffs involving scale, performance, reliability, and correctness.
• Experience leading complex infrastructure initiatives across multiple engineering organizations.

Success Profile

The ideal candidate has built highly reliable distributed systems where data integrity, transactional correctness, durability, and operational reliability are paramount. They have designed foundational infrastructure services that maintain correctness under failure conditions, prioritize consistency over feature velocity, and operate safely at massive scale. Experience with distributed databases, metadata services, control planes, consensus protocols, or large-scale transactional systems.

Pay

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $169,800 to $355,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance