Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Camunda is the enterprise platform for agentic orchestration, enabling organizations to coordinate AI agents, people, and systems across complex, end-to-end business processes. With built-in governance, auditability, and human oversight, Camunda gives enterprises the control they need to move AI from pilots to production — safely and at scale. Trusted by over 700 organizations worldwide, including 9 of top 10 US banks, Camunda helps enterprises boost operational efficiency, accelerate time-to-value, and deliver better customer experiences.

About The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on Camunda's new Data Streaming team, you'll help build a foundational new piece of architecture that changes how customers and internal products access process data. Today, customers have no first-class way to stream their own process data out of Camunda, and Camunda's own analytics product is bottlenecked by querying the same storage the live engine depends on. You'll be part of a greenfield team rebuilding how process data is consumed and served at scale, built on top of a durable, continuously-written streaming layer that decouples data consumption from the live engine.

What You Will Do

• Help rebuild how Camunda's analytics product consumes and serves process data at scale, moving it off the engine's critical path entirely.
• Design and build the core streaming infrastructure that decouples process data access from the live execution engine, backed by durable, object storage.
• Build customer-facing data streaming capabilities, including a supported way to integrate with systems like Kafka, so customers can reliably get their process data into their own tools.
• Make foundational architecture decisions as part of a small, high-ownership team, including how the system guarantees consistency and durability across a distributed streaming pipeline.
• Participate in L3 support and on-call rotations, partnering with Support and SRE to investigate data layer production issues, and feeding what you learn back into the product.

Must Haves

• 7+ years of experience as a backend engineer, in Java, with a strong focus on distributed or data-intensive systems.
• Hands-on experience building or operating an analytical serving layer over a table format such as Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake - including experience with an embedded/lightweight query engine (e.g. DuckDB, or similar), or a stateful stream-processing framework (e.g. Flink, Kafka Streams).
• A track record of working with object storage systems (S3/GCS/Azure or similar) and building reliable, idempotent upload/commit protocols against them.
• Solid grounding in the reasoning behind correctness and consistency in data-intensive systems (e.g. concurrent writes, atomicity, idempotency).
• A demonstrated track record of driving a technical initiative through genuine ambiguity in a still-being-designed system, not just extending an established one.
• Proven experience leading medium-to-large engineering initiatives (3+ months) end-to-end, from solution design, project planning, and coordinating across teams, right through to driving predictable delivery.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills in a remote-first environment: you translate requirements into actionable technical work with Product, and give and receive clear, direct feedback in code review.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Kafka or a similar streaming/event-log system.
• Experience with embedded state stores (RocksDB or similar) for projection/checkpointing workloads.
• Experience with stream processing frameworks (e.g. Apache Flink), particularly stateful processing with local state backends and checkpointing.
• Familiarity with object-storage-native streaming architectures (e.g. systems like WarpStream) is a plus, even without direct hands-on experience.

Compensation

We offer competitive, fair, and transparent compensation. Salary ranges are location-based, with Standard and Major markets 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.

• Canada: C$152,700.00 to C$251,200.00

Benefits & Perks

• 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, 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).
• 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: courses, certifications, books, you decide!

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.