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Camunda is the leader in enterprise agentic automation, orchestrating complex business processes, including high-value knowledge work, across agents, people, and systems. By creating production-ready, enterprise-grade agents with built-in governance, Camunda uniquely delivers trusted AI agents for business-critical processes. Over 700 leading innovators like Atlassian, ING, and Vodafone, rely on Camunda to slash time-to-value from months to days, boost operational efficiency, and elevate customer experiences. Camunda was named a Visionary in the inaugural 2025 Gartnerยฎ Magic Quadrantโข for Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (BOAT).
As a fully remote, global company, weโre rewriting the rules of modern business. Named GP Bullhoundโs 2024 Top 100 Next Unicorn list, certified as a Great Place to Work, and recognized by Flexa for true flexibility, weโre growing fast and looking for top talent to join our team. If youโre excited to do meaningful work and make real impact, keep reading, this role could be the one youโve been waiting for.
About the role
As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend on Camundaโs Distributed Systems team, youโll help build and evolve the durable, highly available, horizontally scalable streaming platform that underpins Camunda 8โs Orchestration Cluster and powers missionโcritical processes for customers around the world.
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 in a holistic manner. As such, you will form strong partnerships with product management, design, QA, and sales, and work with your peers to not only deliver but directly influence the evolution of our platform to meet our customerโs needs.
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What Youโll Be Doing
- Design, build, and maintain backend services for the distributed streaming platform that powers the foundation for Camunda 8โs orchestration capabilities, ensuring durability, high availability, and horizontal scalability.
- Lead mediumโtoโlarge engineering initiatives (3+ months) endโtoโend: partner with Product to translate business problems into technical requirements, write solution designs, draft and maintain project plans, and drive timely, highโquality delivery.
- Help mature our disaster recovery and resilience story, including implementing and evolving an online backup/restore API and contributing to improved multiโregion and multiโtenant 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 timeโtoโmerge and the overhead of working on multiple features in parallel.
- Participate in L3 support and onโcall rotations, partnering closely with Support and SRE to investigate and resolve complex, performanceโsensitive production issues, and feeding what you learn back into our product and platform.
What You Bring
- Ability and/or willingness to useย 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 mediumโtoโlarge engineering initiatives (roughly 3+ months), breaking down ambiguous problems, writing clear solution designs and project plans, coordinating with multiple teams, and driving predictable delivery.
- Handsโon experience building and maintaining highly concurrent, dataโintensive software, with a deep understanding of lowโlevel network and disk I/O (for example, throughput, latency, backpressure, batching, and failure modes).
- Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and navigate ambiguity โ you are comfortable taking on problems you havenโt solved before, breaking them down into concrete steps, and driving them to completion with minimal supervision.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills in a remoteโfirst 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.
Nice-to-haves
- 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 onโcall.
- Deep knowledge of the Java Virtual Machine, especially its memory model and performance characteristics in highly concurrent, dataโintensive workloads.
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What We Have to Offer
Compensation
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:
- United States: $143,800.00 to $231,900.00
- United Kingdom: ยฃ90,300.00 to ยฃ148,500.00
- Singapore: S$178,600.00 to S$267,900.00
If youโre based elsewhere, youโll 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.
Equity: We also offer equity (where applicable) through our Virtual Stock Option Plan (VSOP).
Benefits & Perks
We invest in your wellbeing, growth, and ability to connect, along with perks that support you no matter where youโre 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.
- 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 โฌ1,000 annually from 2027.
- Financial Security: Retirement and pension plans (often with company contributions), plus life and disability insurance where relevant.
- Professional Growth: Up to $/โฌ/ยฃ1,000 per year for self-driven learning: courses, certifications, books, you decide!
- More of what we offer globally & in your country can be found here.
โEveryone is welcome at Camundaโ โ itโs a celebrated component of our culture. We strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our people. At Camunda, we honour diverse cultures and backgrounds and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to gender, race, ethnicity, religion, belief, sexual orientation, age, disability or any other protected characteristics under applicable law. We are looking forward to your application!
Come join us and be part of Camundaโs incredible journey: Make an impact at a pivotal moment in our story!
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