Senior Backend Software Engineer, Distributed Systems at Camunda

About Camunda

Camunda is a leading enterprise platform for agentic orchestration, enabling organizations to coordinate AI agents, human teams, and complex systems across end-to-end business processes. With integrated governance, auditability, and human oversight, Camunda empowers enterprises to move AI from pilot projects to production environments safely and at scale. Trusted by over 700 organizations worldwide, including 9 of the top 10 US banks, Camunda helps businesses boost operational efficiency, accelerate time to value, and deliver superior customer experiences. As a fully remote and global company, Camunda is transforming into an AI-first organization, leveraging Agentic AI to automate and orchestrate intelligent processes, enhancing human contributions across all teams. Camunda has been recognized on GP Bullhound’s Top 100 Next Unicorn list, is 2025 Great Place to Work certified, a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies, and ranked 3rd in Flexa's 2026 Most Flexible Companies. Join a rapidly growing team for meaningful work and visible impact.

About the Role

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer on Camunda’s Distributed Systems team, you will be instrumental in building and evolving a durable, highly available, and horizontally scalable streaming platform. This platform underpins Camunda 8’s Orchestration Cluster, powering mission-critical processes for customers globally. Your work will involve technically challenging projects such as expanding multi-Raft implementations, refining the SWIM-based cluster membership algorithm, and optimizing high performance network and disk I/O pipelines. Camunda emphasizes a holistic engineering approach, fostering strong partnerships with product management, design, quality assurance, and sales. You will collaborate with peers to not only deliver but also directly influence the platform's evolution to meet customer needs.

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What You Will Do

• Design, build, and maintain backend services for the distributed streaming platform that forms 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 disaster recovery and resilience by implementing and evolving an online backup/restore API and contributing to improved multi-region and multi-tenant capabilities for the cloud offering.
• Design and implement developer and operator tooling to simplify understanding, troubleshooting, and safe operation of complex distributed systems 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 time to merge and the overhead of working on multiple features in parallel.
• Participate in L3 support and on-call rotations, partnering closely with Support and SRE to investigate and resolve complex, performance-sensitive production issues, and integrate learned insights back into the product and platform.

What You Will Bring to the Role

Must Haves:

• 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 (roughly 3+ months), including 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 a deep understanding of low-level network and disk I/O (e.g., throughput, latency, backpressure, batching, and failure modes).
• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and navigate ambiguity, comfortable taking on new problems, breaking them into concrete steps, and driving completion with minimal supervision.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills in a remote-first environment: tailor explanations to the audience, translate business requirements into actionable technical work with Product, and facilitate 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 on-call.
• Deep knowledge of the Java Virtual Machine, especially its memory model and performance characteristics in highly concurrent, data-intensive workloads.

What We Have to Offer

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, with hiring typically in the first half of the range to allow room for growth:

• 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 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

Camunda also offers equity (where applicable) through our Virtual Stock Option Plan (VSOP).

Benefits & Perks

Camunda invests in your wellbeing, growth, and ability to connect, with globally designed and locally delivered benefits. These perks support you no matter where you are based.

• Remote & Flexible: Work from anywhere with a setup that suits you, including a home office budget, co-working space support, and flexible time off to recharge when needed.
• In Person Connection: Investment in meaningful face time through annual kickoffs (e.g., Vienna in 2025, Madrid in 2026!), team offsites, and Camundi Connection Budgets, including contributions to meetups while traveling and local gatherings.
• Health & Wellbeing: Access to locally tailored healthcare, Modern Health for global mental wellbeing, and the Live Well Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA), a flexible, global benefit starting in 2026 (scaling to €1,000 annually from 2027) that supports your whole life, from staying active to caring for family, exploring passions, and investing in financial wellbeing.
• 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, you decide!

AI in our hiring process

Camunda may use AI tools to aid the screening of applications and during the interview process. You can learn more here.

Diversity and Inclusion

“Everyone is welcome at Camunda” is a celebrated component of their culture. They strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers all people. Camunda honors diverse cultures and backgrounds and is 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. Camunda looks forward to your application!

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