Camunda - Senior Software Engineer,Backend - Core/API & Process Automation

Remote - EMEA$144k - $232k+ Equity1mo ago

Remote Senior EMEA Senior Software Engineer Senior Backend Developer Technical Writing Elasticsearch Talent Acquisition REST Mentoring

Requirements

• Ability and/or willingness to use our product • 5+ years professional backend engineering, with real depth in distributed and event-driven systems. • 5+ years • distributed and event-driven systems • Deep event sourcing / distributed execution knowledge— consistency, ordering, replay, and their failure modes (partitions, crashes, duplicate/reordered delivery, idempotency, recovery). • Deep event sourcing / distributed execution • failure modes • Strong API design and evolution — contract-first, backward-compatible change, versioning/deprecation, contract testing. • Strong API design • and evolution • Diagnosing/fixing performance under production load — profiling, benchmarking, tail-latency and backpressure reasoning. • Diagnosing/fixing performance under production load • Technical leadership from ambiguity — work autonomously, break down undefined problems, drive pragmatic decisions, disagree-and-commit, and level other engineers up (not a lone hero). • Technical leadership from ambiguity • autonomously • disagree-and-commit • level other engineers up • Communication & product sense — crisp technical writing (ADRs that decide things async), remote-first collaboration, deep product thinking, and an outstanding manager of one. • Communication & product sense • technical writing • remote-first collaboration • product thinking • Nice-to-haves: • Experience with workflow automation / process orchestration (BPMN or similar). • workflow automation / process orchestration • Awareness of the consensus/replication protocols the engine builds on (Raft, SWIM, etc.) — enough to design the engine to behave correctly on top of them (this layer itself is owned by another team). • Awareness of the consensus/replication protocols the engine builds on • Deep query-pattern optimization in RocksDB, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch and relational/Postgres. • query-pattern optimization • Solid JVM knowledge (memory model, concurrency/perf). • This role is an existing vacancy • #LI-SK1 #LI-Remote #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 • Canada: C$152,700.00 to C$251,200.00 • 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 evolve the event-sourced engine and its C8 REST/gRPC/MCP API (command/event, CQRS), including safe public-API evolution — backward-compatible changes, versioning/deprecation, and contract tests so existing integrations and AI agents never break. • Design, build, and evolve the event-sourced engine and its C8 REST/gRPC/MCP API • Take on hard, ambiguous problems and lead them end-to-end — define the problem, write the solution design (ADR), weigh trade-offs pragmatically, sequence the work, and drive delivery across the team. • Take on hard, ambiguous problems and lead them end-to-end • Ship high-impact engine features fast — such as suspending and resuming individual process instances, and enabling AI agents to steer running processes — all while simplifying the engine and holding it to an extremely high quality bar. • Ship high-impact engine features fast • simplifying the engine • Ship resiliency, schema evolution, and observability — smooth version upgrades, replay safety, migration correctness on the event log, and features diagnosable in production, not after the fact. • Ship resiliency, schema evolution, and observability • Detect and optimize inefficient processing and data-access patterns across our data stores (RocksDB, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, relational/Postgres) — spot shapes that don't scale, and fix them. • Detect and optimize inefficient processing and data-access patterns • Level up the team and lead incidents — high-quality reviews, mentoring, and winning technical debates with reasoning (a role model who cares deeply about product and team, not a lone hero); on call, drive resolution, own the RCA, and feed systemic fixes back into the platform. • Level up the team and lead incidents

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: