Backend Data Layer Engineer — Scale & Performance

Camunda; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office budget

Co-working space

Flexible time off

Annual kickoff

Team offsites

Camundi Budgets

Healthcare

Mental wellbeing

Lifestyle Spending Account

Retirement and pension plans

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Professional development

Stock options

Job summary

Camunda is hiring a backend engineer to design and maintain data-layer services using PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MSSQL and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch. You will own end-to-end delivery of key engineering initiatives and participate in on-call rotations to ensure reliability.

Applicants should have 4+ years of experience with production data stores, query optimization, and strong remote collaboration skills to work with distributed teams.

Qualifications

• Requires at least 4 years of backend engineering experience with a focus on production data stores and query optimization.
• Proficient in at least one major relational database or search engine and capable of collaborating remotely.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain backend services for the data layer using relational databases and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch to ensure high performance and scale.
• Own the end-to-end delivery of engineering initiatives and participate in L3 support and on-call rotations.

Skills

Backend Engineering

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MariaDB

MSSQL

Elasticsearch

OpenSearch

Data Modeling

Query Performance Tuning

System Design

CI Pipelines

Database Migration

Liquibase

Flyway

Process Orchestration

L3 Support

Remote collaboration

Tools

Liquibase

Flyway

Job description

Camunda is hiring a backend engineer to design and maintain data-layer services using PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MSSQL and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch. You will own end-to-end delivery of key engineering initiatives and participate in on-call rotations to ensure reliability.

Applicants should have 4+ years of experience with production data stores, query optimization, and strong remote collaboration skills to work with distributed teams.