Camunda - Senior Software Engineer, Backend
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Requirements
• 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. • 7+ years of professional experience as a software engineer • 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. • Proven experience leading medium‑to‑large engineering initiatives • 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). • Hands‑on experience building and maintaining highly concurrent, data‑intensive software • 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. • Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and navigate ambiguity • 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. • Strong communication and collaboration skills in a remote‑first environment • Nice-to-haves: • Experience building workflow automation or process orchestration software. • workflow automation or process orchestration • Experience with distributed systems algorithms or protocols such as Raft, Paxos, SWIM, and/or CRDTs. • distributed systems algorithms or protocols • 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. • observability pillars • Deep knowledge of the Java Virtual Machine, especially its memory model and performance characteristics in highly concurrent, data‑intensive workloads. • Java Virtual Machine • This role is an existing vacancy • #LI-SG1 #LI-Remote #USEAST C1 • What We Have to Offer: • location • United States: $143,800.00 to $231,900.00 • United Kingdom: £90,300.00 to £148,500.00 • Singapore: S$178,600.00 to S$267,900.00 • If you’re based elsewhere, you’ll be hired via Remote.com (our global employer partner), and your Talent Acquisition Partner will provide a personalized Total Rewards Calculator after your first interview. • Remote.com
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. • Design, build, and maintain backend services • 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. • Lead medium‑to‑large engineering initiatives (3+ months) end‑to‑end • 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. • Help mature our disaster recovery and resilience story • Design and implement developer and operator tooling that makes it easier to understand, troubleshoot, and safely operate a complex distributed system in production environments. • Design and implement developer and operator tooling • 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. • Improve engineering effectiveness by collaborating with DevOps • 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. • Participate in L3 support and on‑call rotations
Benefits
• We offer competitive, fair, and transparent compensation. Salary ranges are location-based, with Standard and Major markets (global tech hubs) reflecting local competition. • The Annual Total Target Cash (base salary + 100% variable target, where applicable) shown below spans from the minimum in a Standard market to the maximum in a Major market. Final offers depend on skills, experience, and location, and we typically hire in the first half of the range to allow room for growth: • The Annual Total Target Cash • Equity: We also offer equity (where applicable) through our Virtual Stock Option Plan (VSOP). • Equity: • Virtual Stock Option Plan (VSOP) • We invest in your wellbeing, growth, and ability to connect, along with perks that support you no matter where you’re based. Our benefits are globally designed and locally delivered where applicable. • 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. • Remote & Flexible: • 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. • In Person Connection: • Annual Kickoff • team offsites, and Camundi Connection Budgets • 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. • Health & Wellbeing: • Modern Health • Live Well Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA), • staying active, to caring for family, exploring personal passions, meaningful experiences, and investing in your financial wellbeing. • €1,000 annually from 2027 • Financial Security: Retirement and pension plans (often with company contributions), plus life and disability insurance where relevant. • Financial Security: • Professional Growth: Up to $/€/£1,000 per year for self-driven learning: courses, certifications, books, you decide! • Professional Growth: • More of what we offer globally & in your country can be found here. • More of what we offer globally & in your country can be found
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