Control Plane Transactional Datastore Architect

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.

Responsibilities

• Design highly available control plane services that manage critical infrastructure state and metadata.
• Arcitect 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.

Qualifications

• 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.