Google Spanner Architect

San Jose, CA | Scottsdale, AZ

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.

• 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

• Experience with Canonical logical data model development
• Expertise in performance readiness assessments
• Familiarity with migration readiness sign-off per domain

• 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

• 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.