Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Data Streaming

Camunda; Toronto; On-site; CAD 153,000 - 251,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Annual team kickoff

Health benefits

Learning stipend

Job summary

Camunda is expanding its Data Streaming team to build a durable, continuously-written streaming layer that decouples data consumption from the live engine. You will shape architecture from day one in a small, high-ownership team and work with product, QA, and support to evolve the data streaming platform at scale.

You will help enable analytics products and other data consumers, with opportunities to influence roadmap and architecture in a fast-paced domain.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as a backend engineer, primarily in Java.
• Strong foundations in distributed systems and data-intensive architectures.
• Hands-on experience with streaming systems such as Kafka.
• Experience leading medium-to-large engineering initiatives end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Design and build core streaming infrastructure decoupling data access from the live engine.
• Develop customer-facing data streaming capabilities and integrate with systems like Kafka.
• Redesign analytics data consumption and delivery at scale, removing bottlenecks from the engine path.
• Make architecture decisions in a high-ownership team, ensuring durability and consistency.

Skills

Java

Distributed systems

Kafka

Backend engineering

Tools

Apache Flink

Apache Iceberg

Parquet

Job description

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.

Fully remote and global, we are in the middle of something bigger: transforming into an AI-first organisation, built on our own platform. We use Agentic AI to automate, orchestrate intelligent processes, and elevate human contribution across every team.

Named GP Bullhound’s Top 100 Next Unicorn list, 2025 Great Place to Work certified. Visionary in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies. ranked 3rd in Flexa's 2026 Most Flexible Companies, We’re growing fast and looking for top talent to join our team. If you want meaningful work, visible impact and put something genuinely rare on your CV, keep reading.

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 into their own systems. You'll be part of a greenfield team building a durable, continuously-written streaming layer that decouples data consumption entirely from the live engine. You'll be part of a small team from day one, responsible not only for the streaming architecture itself, but also the analytics product and other data consumers built on top of it - with real room to shape both the architecture and the team's scope as it matures. You will play a key part in shaping the architecture in a genuinely exciting and fast-paced domain.

At Camunda, we approach engineering in a holistic manner. As such, you will form strong partnerships with product management, the Data Layer and Distributed Systems teams, QA, and support, and work closely with your peers to not only deliver but directly influence how our data streaming architecture evolves to meet our customers' needs.

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What You’ll Be Doing

• Design and build the core streaming infrastructure that decouples process data access from the live execution engine, backed by durable, low-cost 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.
• Help rebuild how Camunda's analytics product consumes and serves process data at scale, moving it off the engine's critical path entirely.
• 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.

What You Bring

• Ability and/or willingness to use our product
• 7+ years of experience as a backend engineer, in Java, with a strong focus on distributed or data-intensive systems.
• Hands-on experience with object storage systems (S3/GCS/Azure or similar) and building reliable, idempotent upload/commit protocols against them.
• Experience with Kafka or a similar streaming/event-log system.
• Solid grounding in distributed systems fundamentals, even without core execution-engine experience specifically.
• 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 Apache Iceberg, Parquet, or general lakehouse/data-lake architectures.
• 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.

This role is an existing vacancy

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Compensation

What We Have to Offer:

We offer 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, and we typically hire 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

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

If you’re based elsewhere, you’ll 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: We also offer equity (where applicable) through our Virtual Stock Option Plan (VSOP).

Benefits & Perks

We invest in your wellbeing, growth, and ability to connect, along with perks that support you no matter where you’re based. Our benefits are globally designed and locally delivered where applicable.

• 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 (Vienna in 2025, Madrid in 2026!), team offsites, and Camundi Connection Budgets, including contributing to meetups while travelling,, and local gatherings with fellow Camundi.
• Health & Wellbeing: Access locally tailored healthcare, Modern Health for global mental wellbeing, and our Live Well Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA), a flexible, global benefit that puts you in control of your whole life, not just work, from: staying active, to caring for family, exploring personal passions, meaningful experiences, and investing in your financial wellbeing. The Live Well program launches in 2026 and scales to €1,000 annually from 2027.
• 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!

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.

Everyone is welcome at Camunda” — it’s a celebrated component of our culture. We strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our people. 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.