[Hiring] Backend Software Engineer @Camunda

Role Description

As a Backend Software Engineer on the Data Layer team, you'll help build and evolve the storage and query layer that keeps Camunda 8's process data fast, accurate, and available at scale. Spanning both relational databases and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, the data layer and its data pipelines power everything from process monitoring to the new agent-driven automation capabilities we're rolling out.

As part of the Data Layer team, you will work on both technically challenging and rewarding projects, such as:

• Reshaping how we store and retain process data
• Streaming data to external systems
• Evolving our secondary storage systems to perform at ever greater scale

At Camunda, we approach engineering in a holistic manner. You will form strong partnerships with:

• Product management
• Design
• QA
• Support

Work with your peers to not only deliver but directly influence how our data layer evolves to meet our customers' needs.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Design, build, and maintain backend services for the data layer that stores and serves Camunda 8's process data, spanning relational databases and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, with an eye toward correctness, performance, and scale.
• Own the end-to-end delivery of engineering initiatives, working with Product Management and senior colleagues to break down requirements into concrete solution designs, driving projects to timely and high-quality delivery.
• Help evolve how we process, retain, and expose process data, so customers can work with their data the way they need to.
• Invest in making our secondary storage systems more performant and scalable as usage grows, and build tooling that makes it easier to understand, troubleshoot, and safely operate the data layer in production.
• 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.

Qualifications

• 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, with a practical understanding of query performance, indexing, and data modeling trade-offs
• Experience contributing to complex engineering initiatives: breaking down requirements into concrete tasks, writing clear technical designs for your piece of the work, and delivering reliably
• Comfortable investigating slow queries, execution plans, and index usage to root-cause data-related production issues.
• 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 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.

Benefits

• Competitive, fair, and transparent compensation.
• Equity through our Virtual Stock Option Plan (VSOP).
• Remote & Flexible work options.
• In-person connection opportunities through annual kickoffs and team offsites.
• Access to locally tailored healthcare and global mental wellbeing support.
• Retirement and pension plans, plus life and disability insurance where relevant.
• Up to $/€/£1,000 per year for self-driven learning.