Camunda · 22 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Distributed Systems
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$144K/yr - $232K/yr
7+ years expCamunda is the leader in enterprise agentic automation, orchestrating complex business processes. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and evolve a distributed streaming platform that supports their orchestration capabilities, ensuring high availability and scalability.
Enterprise SoftwareInformation TechnologySaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain backend services for the distributed streaming platform that powers the foundation for Camunda 8’s orchestration capabilities, ensuring durability, high availability, and horizontal scalability
Lead medium‑to‑large engineering initiatives (3+ months) end‑to‑end: partner with Product to translate business problems into technical requirements, write solution designs, draft and maintain project plans, and drive timely, high‑quality delivery
Help mature our disaster recovery and resilience story, including implementing and evolving an online backup/restore API and contributing to improved multi‑region and multi‑tenant capabilities for our cloud offering
Design and implement developer and operator tooling that makes it easier to understand, troubleshoot, and safely operate a complex distributed system in production environments
Improve engineering effectiveness by collaborating with DevOps and other Core Application teams on CI, testing, and local development workflows to reduce PR time‑to‑merge and the overhead of working on multiple features in parallel
Participate in L3 support and on‑call rotations, partnering closely with Support and SRE to investigate and resolve complex, performance‑sensitive production issues, and feeding what you learn back into our product and platform
Qualification
Required
Ability and/or willingness to use our product
7+ years of professional experience as a software engineer, with a strong focus on backend systems and/or distributed systems
Proven experience leading medium‑to‑large engineering initiatives (roughly 3+ months), breaking down ambiguous problems, writing clear solution designs and project plans, coordinating with multiple teams, and driving predictable delivery
Hands‑on experience building and maintaining highly concurrent, data‑intensive software, with a deep understanding of low‑level network and disk I/O (for example, throughput, latency, backpressure, batching, and failure modes)
Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and navigate ambiguity – you are comfortable taking on problems you haven't solved before, breaking them down into concrete steps, and driving them to completion with minimal supervision
Strong communication and collaboration skills in a remote‑first environment: you tailor explanations to your audience, translate business requirements into actionable technical work with Product, and help teams reach clear, decisive outcomes with minimal churn
Preferred
Experience building workflow automation or process orchestration software
Experience with distributed systems algorithms or protocols such as Raft, Paxos, SWIM, and/or CRDTs
Strong familiarity with the observability pillars (logging, metrics, tracing) and how to integrate observability into the development and incident lifecycle, ideally including experience with L3 support and on‑call
Deep knowledge of the Java Virtual Machine, especially its memory model and performance characteristics in highly concurrent, data‑intensive workloads
Benefits
Remote & Flexible: Work from anywhere with the setup that suits you, home office budget, co-working space support, and flexible time off to recharge when you need it.
In Person Connection: We invest in meaningful face time through our Annual Kickoff (Vienna in 2025, Madrid in 2026!), team offsites, and Camundi Connection Budgets, including contributing to meetups while travelling,, and local gatherings with fellow Camundi.
Health & Wellbeing: Access locally tailored healthcare, Modern Health for global mental wellbeing, and our Live Well Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA), a flexible, global benefit that puts you in control of your whole life, not just work, from: staying active, to caring for family, exploring personal passions, meaningful experiences, and investing in your financial wellbeing. The Live Well program launches in 2026 and scales to €1,000 annually from 2027.
Financial Security: Retirement and pension plans (often with company contributions), plus life and disability insurance where relevant.
Professional Growth: Up to $/€/£1,000 per year for self-driven learning: courses, certifications, books, you decide!
Company
Camunda
Camunda is the leader in enterprise agentic automation, orchestrating complex business processes.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$126.22MKey Investors
Insight PartnersHighland Europe
2021-03-22Series B· $97.84M
2018-12-05Series A· $28.37M
Leadership Team
Jakob Freund
CEO
Bernd Ruecker
Co-Founder and Chief Technologist
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