Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Camunda; United States; Remote; GBP 90,300 - 148,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work from anywhere with setup

Annual Kickoff and team events

Health & wellbeing programs

Professional growth budgets

Job summary

Camunda is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Backend, to own automated reliability testing and chaos engineering at Camunda 8. You’ll break things in controlled environments to harden our platform, guide product direction, and learn new technologies with a collaborative team.

We value curiosity, autonomous problem solving, and user-focused reliability across Java, Go, Kubernetes, Helm, and Grafana. This fully remote, globally distributed role invites you to shape scalable infrastructure

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in backend software engineering (Java).
• Proven drive to experiment, learn new tech, and conduct automated reliability and chaos testing in distributed environments.
• Deep enthusiasm for improving performance and fault-tolerance in production systems.
• Autonomous, pragmatic problem-solving skills with an ability to guide and influence others.
• Willingness and ability to use Camunda products and approach reliability from a user’s perspective.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and execute automated chaos experiments and reliability tests.
• Investigate root causes and debug potential failures or performance regressions.
• Improve load testing, chaos engineering and observability infrastructure.
• Introduce new tooling for reliability testing and drive measurable improvements.
• Collaborate with QA and engineering, sharing learnings and influencing roadmaps.
• Champion pragmatic, autonomous software design across Kubernetes, Helm, Grafana, Java, and Go.

Skills

Backend Java

Chaos testing

Distributed systems

Autonomous problem solving

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

Grafana

Java

Go

Job description

Camunda is

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, Backend, you’ll take ownership of automated reliability testing and chaos engineering at the core of Camunda 8. This role thrives on curiosity, experimentation, and relentless improvement—you’ll break things (on purpose!) in safe environments to strengthen our platform before customers ever feel the impact. Here, you’ll make a measurable impact and guide product direction, all while learning new technologies and collaborating with talented, friendly colleagues who live our FAITH values (Focus, Ambition, Integrity, Talent, and Humor).

Curious about the kind of challenges you’ll work on at Camunda? Watch this quick 30-minute talk from our engineers to learn more about the new Camunda Exporter and how we’re solving complex problems at scale

What You’ll Be Doing

• Design, implement, and execute automated chaos experiments and reliability tests, validating Camunda’s platform under real-world scenarios
  • You will investigate, root-cause and debug potential failures or performance regressions of our Java based products
• Continuously improve existing load testing, chaos engineering and observability infrastructure to keep our system reliable and performant
  • Here we use different languages, tools and frameworks like java, go, kubernetes, prometheus, grafana, etc.
  • As an example of the above you can check out this CamundaCon recording or this blog post
• Introduce new tooling and approaches for reliability testing, driving measurable improvements to operational experience and user outcomes (examples from the past: introducing zbchaos as fault injection tool)
• Collaborate closely with QA and engineering (including cross-functional teams), sharing learnings (e.g. with our team blog) and influencing team roadmaps based on experiment findings
• Champion a pragmatic, autonomous approach to software design, solving tough problems and learning new principles and technologies (Kubernetes, Helm, Grafana, Java, Go, and more)
• Advocate for user-centric reliability by using and understanding Camunda’s products firsthand

Defining Success For This Role

• Based on all of the above, you have end to end delivered a concrete task, as for example (the concrete goal will be defined during your onboarding):
• After 3 months, you have designed and delivered a way to run quick and reproducible load tests, allowing us:
• to reduce the feedback loops for engineers
• directly fitting into the development lifecycle
• Enable engineers to make use of it and extend it
• After 3 months, you have designed and implemented a realistic, automated, holistic load testing framework for Optimize, in close collaboration with Senior Engineers and Field teams:
• Conducted a deep-dive analysis of performance limits.
• Shared results with the relevant core engineering teams and enabled them to re-run the tests.

Documented findings in public-facing documentation to help users better understand performance characteristics and guide their installation design.

What You Bring

• Ability and/or willingness to use our product
• 5+ years of experience in backend software engineering (Java)
• Proven drive to experiment, learn new tech, and conduct automated reliability and chaos testing in distributed environments
• Deep enthusiasm for improving performance and fault-tolerance in production systems
• Autonomous, pragmatic problem-solving skills with an ability to guide and influence others
• Willingness and ability to use Camunda products and approach reliability from a user’s perspective

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on experience with Go or other languages, in a multi-language context
• Working as SRE on distributed systems, with a strong software engineering mindset before
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes, Helm Charts, Operators, and related production infrastructure
• Experience running apps in production, with solid skills in monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance analysis
• Background in chaos engineering, automated reliability, load, or performance testing

This role is an existing vacancy

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. We are looking forward to your application!

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