Senior Backend Engineer - Distributed Systems (Remote)

Camunda

United States

Remote

USD 144,000 - 232,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

Camunda is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Backend on the Distributed Systems team to build and evolve a scalable streaming platform underpinning Camunda 8’s orchestration capabilities. You will work with product and peers to deliver high-quality backend services at scale.

You will lead multi‑month engineering initiatives, improve disaster recovery, and contribute to tooling and observability. This is a remote-first role with global teams, offering meaningful impact and growth opportunities

Qualifications

7+ years as a software engineer focusing on backend/distributed systems.
Proven track record leading medium-to-large engineering initiatives (3+ months).
Hands-on experience with highly concurrent, data-intensive software.
Able to work autonomously in ambiguous environments with minimal supervision.
Strong communication in a remote-first environment.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain backend services for the distributed streaming platform.
Lead medium-to-large engineering initiatives end-to-end (3+ months).
Help mature disaster recovery and resilience, including backup/restore APIs and multi-region capabilities.
Design and implement developer and operator tooling for complex distributed systems.
Collaborate with DevOps and other Core teams to optimize CI, testing, and development workflows.
Participate in L3 support and on-call rotations with Support and SRE.