Control Plane Transactional Datastore Architect

Oracle•United States,

9d•$136,600 - $355,400

About The Position

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.

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.

Nice To Haves

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.

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.