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.

Skills

7+ years experience
Distributed systems
Leadership initiatives
Autonomous work
Remote-first comms

Tools

JVM
Observability tooling

Job description

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

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