The opportunity
Celonis is the trusted platform to industrialize Enterprise AI. At our core is the Celonis Context Model — which combines process data, business knowledge, and intelligence into a living digital twin of the enterprise that AI can actually understand, turning AI's operational blind spots into operational clarity.
What you'll do
Data Core , a Java / Spring Boot service with gRPC and message-queue APIs.
sqlglot , where we translate and optimize SQL across dialects.
StarRocks , the OLAP engine we use as a backend.
Implement features and fix bugs in Data Core backend integrations.
Add and fix sqlglot dialect support: parsing, SQL generation, and transpilation correctness.
Investigate StarRocks behavior and compatibility issues, and contribute fixes or workarounds.
What they're looking for
- Debug slow or incorrect queries by following them from SQL text to query plan to results.
- Write unit and integration tests, especially for SQL translation edge cases.
- Take part in design discussions, write short design docs for your own work, and give and receive code reviews.
- As a Senior: lead small to medium projects end to end and help onboard newer teammates.