Backend Software Engineer, Data Layer at Camunda

About Camunda

Camunda is a leading enterprise platform for agentic orchestration, helping organizations coordinate AI agents, people, and systems across intricate, end to end business processes. With robust built in governance, auditability, and human oversight, Camunda empowers enterprises to safely and scalably move AI initiatives from pilots to production. Trusted by over 700 organizations worldwide, including 9 of the top 10 US banks, Camunda significantly boosts operational efficiency, accelerates time to value, and delivers superior customer experiences. As a fully remote and global company, Camunda is transforming into an AI first organization, built on its own platform. We leverage Agentic AI to automate and orchestrate intelligent processes, enhancing human contribution across all teams. Camunda has been recognized on GP Bullhound’s Top 100 Next Unicorn list and is a 2025 Great Place to Work certified company. It was also named a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies and ranked 3rd in Flexa's 2026 Most Flexible Companies. We are growing rapidly and seeking top talent to join our team, offering meaningful work, visible impact, and a unique career opportunity.

About the Role

As a Backend Software Engineer on the Data Layer team, you will be instrumental in building and evolving the storage and query layer that ensures Camunda 8's process data remains fast, accurate, and highly available at scale. This critical data layer, encompassing both relational databases and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, along with its data pipelines, powers essential functions from process monitoring to our innovative agent driven automation capabilities. You will tackle technically challenging and rewarding projects, such as redesigning how process data is stored and retained, streaming data to external systems, and enhancing our secondary storage systems for ever greater performance and scale. At Camunda, engineering is approached holistically, fostering strong partnerships with product management, design, QA, and support. You will collaborate with peers to not only deliver but also directly influence the evolution of our data layer to meet customer needs. Learn more about the technical challenges at Camunda by watching a 30 minute talk from our engineers on the new Camunda Exporter and how we solve complex problems at scale.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Design, build, and maintain backend services for the data layer that stores and serves Camunda 8's process data. This involves working with relational databases and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, with a strong focus on correctness, performance, and scalability.
• Own the end to end delivery of engineering initiatives, collaborating with Product Management and senior colleagues to translate requirements into concrete solution designs, and ensuring timely, high quality project delivery.
• Help evolve our methods for processing, retaining, and exposing process data, enabling customers to interact with their data seamlessly.
• Invest in making our secondary storage systems more performant and scalable as usage expands, and develop tooling that simplifies understanding, troubleshooting, and safe operation of the data layer in production.
• Participate in L3 support and on call rotations, partnering with Support and SRE teams to investigate data layer production issues, and integrate lessons learned back into the product development cycle.

What You Bring

• Ability and/or willingness to use our product.
• At least 4 years of experience as a backend engineer, with a strong focus on backend systems and production data stores.
• Hands on experience with at least one of PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MSSQL, or Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, coupled with a practical understanding of query performance, indexing, and data modeling trade offs.
• Experience contributing to complex engineering initiatives: effectively breaking down requirements into actionable tasks, crafting clear technical designs for your work, and delivering reliably.
• Comfort investigating slow queries, execution plans, and index usage to identify the root cause of data related production issues.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills in a remote first environment: adept at translating requirements into actionable technical work with Product, and providing/receiving clear, direct feedback in code review.

Nice to Haves

• Experience building workflow automation or process orchestration software.
• Experience working with both relational databases and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch.
• Experience building or maintaining CI pipelines.
• Understanding of database migration tooling (e.g. Liquibase, Flyway) and schema evolution in a live system.

Compensation and Benefits

Compensation

Camunda offers 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. We typically hire in the first half of the range to allow room for growth:

• United States: $119,900.00 to $193,200.00
• United Kingdom: £75,300.00 to £123,800.00
• Singapore: S$148,900.00 to S$223,300.00
• Canada: C$127,300.00 to C$209,300.00

If you are based elsewhere, you will 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 you are based. Our benefits are globally designed and locally delivered where applicable.

• Remote & Flexible: Work from anywhere with your preferred setup, supported by a home office budget, co working space support, and flexible time off for recharging.
• In Person Connection: We facilitate meaningful face time through our Annual Kickoff (Vienna in 2025, Madrid in 2026!), team offsites, and Camundi Connection Budgets, which include contributions for meetups while traveling and local gatherings with fellow Camundi.
• Health & Wellbeing: Access locally tailored healthcare, Modern Health for global mental wellbeing support, and our Live Well Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA). This flexible, global benefit allows you to manage various aspects of your life beyond work, from staying active to caring for family, pursuing personal passions, meaningful experiences, and investing in 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: including courses, certifications, and books.

AI in Our Hiring Process

Camunda may utilize AI tools to assist in the screening of applications and during the interview process. You can learn more on our website.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

“Everyone is welcome at Camunda” — it is a celebrated component of our culture. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment that empowers our people. At Camunda, we honor 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 look forward to your application! Come join us and be part of Camunda’s incredible journey: Make an impact at a pivotal moment in our story!

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