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This includes systems for distributed execution, workload optimization, query performance, scheduling, resource management, and compute cost reduction across petabyte- and exabyte-scale environments.\nYou will own core systems that directly affect customer compute spend, query latency, workload reliability, cluster efficiency, and the performance of large-scale analytical data processing.\nThis is a hands-on systems role for engineers who have gone deep on distributed execution - particularly Apache Spark or similar query/runtime systems - and want to own performance, scheduling, reliability, and compute efficiency at massive scale.\nWhat You’ll Do\nBuild and optimize distributed compute infrastructure for large-scale analytical and AI workloads\n\nImprove execution performance across scans, joins, aggregations, shuffles, spills, caching, partitioning, and task scheduling\n\nDesign adaptive systems for workload routing, execution planning, resource allocation, and cluster efficiency\n\nDebug bottlenecks across CPU, memory, network, storage, metadata, and distributed execution layers\n\nImprove reliability, fault tolerance, and compute efficiency across Spark and adjacent systems such as Trino, Presto, Flink, Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi, and cloud object stores\n\nWhat We’re Looking For\nDeep engineering experience in distributed systems, query engines, databases, or cloud infrastructure\n\nProduction experience building, extending, or deeply optimizing distributed compute or query systems such as Spark, Spark SQL, Trino, Presto, Flink, or similar execution engines\n\nStrong understanding of distributed execution, query planning, scheduling, resource management, fault tolerance, workload isolation, and performance optimization\n\nHands-on experience with Spark internals such as Catalyst, Adaptive Query Execution, shuffle, joins, aggregation, spill, memory management, or task scheduling\n\nStrong programming skills in Scala, Java, Go, Rust, C++, or a similar systems-oriented language, with a pragmatic end-to-end builder mindset\n\nBonus\nContributions to Spark, Trino, Presto, Flink, Velox, DuckDB, DataFusion, Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi, Parquet, ORC, or related systems\n\nExperience with cost-based optimization, vectorized execution, workload schedulers, execution control planes, resource managers, storage-aware execution, or adaptive query optimization\n\nResearch or open-source contributions in distributed systems, databases, query processing, data processing, or cloud infrastructure\n\nWhy Join Granica\nBuild foundational infrastructure for enterprise data and AI\n\nWork on deep systems problems across distributed compute, query execution, scheduling, and compute efficiency\n\nOwn meaningful parts of the architecture in a small, high-caliber engineering team\n\nWork directly with Product, Engineering, and company leadership\n\nHave direct impact on customer performance, infrastructure cost, product direction, and company growth\n\nCompensation & Benefits\nCompetitive salary, meaningful equity, and performance bonus for top performers\n\n401(k) with company match, comprehensive health coverage, and unlimited PTO\n\nDaily catered meals in our Mountain View office\n\nSupport for research, publication, and conference participation\n\nAt Granica, you'll help build the next generation of enterprise AI -from exabyte-scale data infrastructure, Large Tabular Models (LTMs), and stateful AI agents. 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