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ManagerFull-timePythonJavaRustGoAIML
Salary Range
$163,200 - $220,800 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
We’re hiring an Engineering Manager (Hands-on TLM) to lead Granica’s Foundational Data Systems—the core infrastructure layer that everything else depends on. You’ll lead a globally distributed team of ~15–20 senior engineers across the US, India, and Canada, with direct ownership of long-lived systems spanning storage, metadata, and distributed compute.
Key Responsibilities
- →Lead, mentor, and grow a senior engineering team across multiple geographies
- →Set technical direction through design reviews, RFCs, and principled architectural trade-offs
- →Translate strategy into execution through clear roadmaps and milestones
- →Establish engineering standards for correctness, reliability, and cost efficiency
- →Lead incident response, postmortems, and system improvements
- →Work closely with Research, Applied Systems, Product, and Infrastructure teams
Requirements
- ✓7+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or distributed systems engineering
- ✓2+ years leading engineering teams or large multi-person technical initiatives
- ✓Strong system design experience across distributed compute, storage, or data platforms
- ✓Experience building or operating large-scale data infrastructure systems
- ✓Hands-on experience with one or more open table formats such as Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, or Apache Hudi
- ✓Understanding of table format internals, such as metadata layers and manifests, snapshot/transaction commit models, file compaction and table optimization, schema evolution and partitioning strategies
- ✓Experience working with distributed compute frameworks such as Spark, Trino/Presto, Flink, or Ray
- ✓Strong programming ability in Go, Java, Scala, or Python
- ✓Comfort operating as a hands-on engineering leader (~30–40% technical) while managing a team.
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