Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Distributed Systems

The role

You will build and evolve a durable, highly available, and horizontally scalable streaming platform for Camunda 8. You will lead engineering initiatives, design backend services, and improve disaster recovery and resilience.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain backend services for the distributed streaming platform.
• Lead medium-to-large engineering initiatives end-to-end.
• Partner with Product to translate business problems into technical requirements.
• Write solution designs and maintain project plans.
• Mature disaster recovery and resilience including online backup/restore API.
• Contribute to multi-region and multi-tenant capabilities.
• Design and implement developer and operator tooling.
• Collaborate with DevOps on CI, testing, and local development workflows.
• Participate in L3 support and on-call rotations.

Required qualifications

• 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).
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining highly concurrent, data-intensive software.
• Deep understanding of low-level network and disk I/O.
• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and navigate ambiguity.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills in a remote-first environment.

Nice to have

• 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).
• Experience with L3 support and on-call.
• Deep knowledge of the Java Virtual Machine, especially its memory model and performance characteristics.

Benefits

• Work from anywhere with home office budget and co-working space support.
• Flexible time off.
• Annual Kickoff and team offsites.
• Camundi Connection Budgets for meetups and local gatherings.
• Access to locally tailored healthcare.
• Modern Health for global mental wellbeing.
• Live Well Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA).
• Retirement and pension plans.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Up to $/€/£1,000 per year for self-driven learning.

About the company

Camunda is the enterprise platform for agentic orchestration, enabling organizations to coordinate AI agents, people, and systems. It is a global, remote-first organization named to GP Bullhound’s Top 100 Next Unicorn list.