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Google Spanner Architect

Job in Scottsdale, Maricopa County, Arizona, 85250, USA
Listing for: Artech LLC
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-01-12
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Systems Engineer, Data Engineer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Location:

San Jose, CA | Scottsdale, AZ

Introduction

We are seeking a highly skilled professional to own the target-state data architecture on Google Spanner, ensuring the new data model satisfies functional correctness, performance SLOs, and transactional semantics required by 1000 applications—before large-scale app rewrites occur. This is a distributed systems architect role.

Required

Skills & Qualifications
  • Applicants must be able to work directly for Artech on W2
  • 10 years in large-scale data architecture
  • Deep expertise in Google Spanner internals, including True Time, distributed transactions, and synchronous replication
  • Experience designing petabyte-scale, multi-region OLTP systems
  • Strong understanding of distributed consistency models and failure modes in globally distributed databases
  • Prior Oracle to distributed DB migration experience strongly preferred
Preferred

Skills & Qualifications
  • Experience with Canonical logical data model development
  • Expertise in performance readiness assessments
  • Familiarity with migration readiness sign-off per domain
Day-to-Day Responsibilities
  • Define the Logical Canonical Data Model (LCDM) independent of physical storage
  • Design Spanner-native physical schemas, including primary key strategy, row key distribution, and secondary index strategy
  • Define transaction boundaries under Spanner constraints and classify workloads by strong consistency vs bounded staleness tolerance
  • Work with QA and platform teams to validate CRUD contracts, query semantics, and transaction in variants
  • Participate in workload replay analysis and diagnose hot key risks, transaction conflicts, and index amplification
  • Act as final authority for Spanner data design decisions and mentor domain architects and engineers
Company Benefits & Culture
  • Inclusive and diverse workplace culture
  • Opportunities for professional growth and development
  • Supportive team environment

For immediate consideration please click APPLY to begin the screening process with Alex.

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