Software Engineer, Backend - Core/API & Process Automation

Camunda is the enterprise platform for agentic orchestration. This backend engineering role focuses on the core event-sourced workflow engine, building APIs and process automation features. The team works on distributed systems, event sourcing, and enabling AI agents.

• Build and evolve features in the event-sourced engine and its C8 REST/gRPC/MCP API (command/event, CQRS), with guidance on the harder design calls.
• Own well-scoped work end-to-end — implement, test, and ship; contribute your ideas to solution designs and write clear design notes / ADRs.
• Help ship high-impact engine features — like suspending and resuming individual process instances, enabling AI agents to steer running processes, and variable tracing — and watch them reach thousands of customers.
• Design and consume clean APIs — good contracts, developer ergonomics, and an awareness of not breaking existing integrations.
• Detect and optimize inefficient processing and data-access patterns across our data stores (RocksDB, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, relational/Postgres) — growing into the harder cases — and build observability into what you ship.
• Proactively flag issues and tech debt, keep quality high through reviews and testing (collaborative, not a lone hero), and participate in support / on-call as you ramp.

• Ability and/or willingness to use our product
• 2+ years professional backend engineering experience.
• Solid grasp of event-driven systems and genuine eagerness to go deep on event sourcing / distributed systems — including a working understanding of consistency, ordering, and failure basics.
• Good API design instincts (REST) — clean, sensible contracts, with awareness of backward compatibility.
• Product thinking — you care about the outcome for users, not just the ticket.
• Strong "manager of one" — own your work and drive it forward without day-to-day management, manage your own time and focus in a remote/async setting, communicate progress and raise blockers early (self-directed, but knows when to ask for help), and reliably follow through on what you commit to.
• High growth drive — genuinely ambitious to level up, and actively takes on unfamiliar, uncomfortable challenges rather than staying in the comfort zone.
• Clear written communication in a remote-first, async setting.

• Compensation: competitive, fair, transparent salary ranges.
• Equity: Virtual Stock Option Plan (VSOP).
• Remote & Flexible: work from anywhere, home office budget, co-working space support, flexible time off.
• In Person Connection: Annual Kickoff, team offsites, Camundi Connection Budgets.
• Health & Wellbeing: locally tailored healthcare, Modern Health, Live Well Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA) (€1,000 annually from 2027).
• Financial Security: retirement and pension plans, life and disability insurance.
• Professional Growth: up to $/€/£1,000 per year for self-driven learning.