# Senior Software Engineer — Distributed Compute / Spark Systems at Granica

- Company: Granica
- What the company does: Granica reduces the cost of enterprise AI across data storage, data processing, and agent compute. Everything runs inside your perimeter, and you keep the intelligence your data builds. Backed by NEA.
- Company website: https://www.granica.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Bay Area Office
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $160K to $240K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-27
- Apply by: 2026-10-11
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/granica/68e0b1db-0f03-4ad3-85e9-586aeb46f6c2
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/granica-senior-software-engineer-distributed-compute-spark-systems/

## About the role

Granica is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build distributed compute systems for enterprise-scale data and AI workloads. You will work on the core infrastructure behind Crunch, Granica’s continuous optimization product for enterprise lakehouse data. This includes systems for distributed execution, workload optimization, query performance, scheduling, resource management, and compute cost reduction across petabyte- and exabyte-scale environments.

## What they're looking for

- Strong engineering depth in distributed systems, data processing systems, query engines, databases, or cloud infrastructure
- Production experience with distributed compute or query systems such as Apache Spark, Spark SQL, Trino, Presto, Flink, Databricks, EMR, Glue, Hive, or similar systems
- Hands-on experience improving performance, reliability, or cost efficiency for large-scale data-processing workloads
- Understanding of distributed execution, query planning, scheduling, resource management, fault tolerance, and workload isolation
- Experience with Spark internals, Spark SQL, Catalyst, Adaptive Query Execution, shuffle, joins, aggregation, spill, memory management, or task scheduling
- Familiarity with lakehouse formats and columnar data such as Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi, Parquet, or ORC

Tags: Engineering