Remote Senior Backend Engineer – Data Streaming

Camunda; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 144,000 - 232,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Annual kickoff

Wellbeing benefits

Learning stipend

Job summary

Camunda is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its new Data Streaming team. You will build a durable streaming layer that decouples data access from the live engine and own analytics products built on top.

You’ll work with product management, Data Layer, and Distributed Systems teams to evolve the architecture in a fast-paced domain. You’ll lead architecture decisions, collaborate across teams, and participate in on-call rotations to diagnose data-layer issues, contributing to a scalable,

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Java backend

Distributed systems

Kafka

Leadership

Remote collaboration

System design

Tools

S3

GCS

Azure

Apache Iceberg

Job description

Camunda is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its new Data Streaming team. You will build a durable streaming layer that decouples data access from the live engine and own analytics products built on top.

You’ll work with product management, Data Layer, and Distributed Systems teams to evolve the architecture in a fast-paced domain. You’ll lead architecture decisions, collaborate across teams, and participate in on-call rotations to diagnose data-layer issues, contributing to a scalable,