Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Core Foundations

Overview

Camunda is the leader in enterprise agentic automation, orchestrating complex business processes across agents, people, and systems. By creating production-ready, enterprise-grade agents with built-in governance, Camunda delivers trusted AI agents for business-critical processes. Over 700 leading innovators rely on Camunda to slash time-to-value, boost operational efficiency, and elevate customer experiences. Camunda was named a Visionary in the inaugural 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (BOAT).

As a fully remote, global company, we’re rewriting the rules of modern business. Named GP Bullhound’s 2024 Top 100 Next Unicorn list, certified as a Great Place to Work, and recognized for flexibility, we’re growing fast and looking for top talent to join our team. If you’re excited to do meaningful work and make real impact, this role could be the one you’ve been waiting for.

About the role:

As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend on Camunda’s Distributed Systems team, you’ll help build and evolve the resilient, highly available, horizontally scalable streaming platform that underpins Camunda 8’s Orchestration Cluster and powers mission-critical processes for customers globally.

As part of the Distributed Systems team, you will work on technically challenging and rewarding projects, such as expanding on our multi-Raft implementation, our SWIM-based cluster membership algorithm, or high-performance network and disk I/O pipelines.

At Camunda, we approach engineering holistically. You will form strong partnerships with product management, design, QA, and sales, and collaborate with peers to deliver and influence the evolution of our platform to meet customer needs.

Curious about the kind of challenges you’ll work on at Camunda? Watch a quick 30-minute talk from our engineers to learn more about the Camunda Exporter and how we’re solving complex problems at scale.

• 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 multi-region and multi-tenant capabilities for our cloud offering.

• Design and implement developer and operator tooling to understand, troubleshoot, and safely operate a complex distributed system in production environments.

• Improve engineering effectiveness by collaborating with Dev Ops and other Core Application teams on CI, testing, and local development workflows to reduce PR time-to-merge and overhead of working on multiple features in parallel.

• Participate in L3 support and on-call rotations, partnering with Support and SRE to investigate and resolve complex, performance-sensitive production issues, and feed learnings back into our product and platform.

• 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 (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 understanding of low-level network and disk I/O (throughput, latency, back pressure, batching, and failure modes).

• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and navigate ambiguity – ability to take on problems you haven’t solved before, break them down into concrete steps, and drive them to completion with minimal supervision.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills in a remote-first environment
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