Software Engineer, Backend - Distributed Systems

Camunda; United States; Remote; USD 144,000 - 232,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Global benefits

Professional growth

Wellbeing programs

Job summary

Camunda is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Backend on the Distributed Systems team, to build and evolve a durable, highly available streaming platform powering Camunda 8’s orchestration cluster. You’ll contribute to high-performance networks, multi-region resilience, and scalable I/O pipelines, while partnering with product, design, QA, and sales in a remote-first setting.

You will lead 3+ month initiatives, design solutions, and drive timely delivery.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with backend/distributed systems.
• Experience leading medium-to-large engineering initiatives (3+ months).
• Hands-on experience with highly concurrent, data-intensive software and low-level I/O.
• Ability to work autonomously and navigate ambiguity.
• Strong communication and collaboration in a remote-first environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend services for Camunda 8’s orchestration platform.
• Lead medium-to-large engineering initiatives end-to-end with product collaboration.
• Help mature disaster recovery, multi-region, and multi-tenant capabilities for cloud.
• Design and implement developer and operator tooling for production safety and troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with DevOps and Core Application teams to improve CI, testing, and local development workflows.
• Participate in L3 support and on-call rotations with Support and SRE.

Skills

Backend systems

Distributed systems

Leadership of initiatives

Autonomy in ambiguity

Remote collaboration

Communication

Java Virtual Machine

Tools

Java Virtual Machine

Job description

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 on Camunda’s Distributed Systems team, you’ll help build and evolve the durable, highly available, horizontally scalable streaming platform that underpins Camunda 8’s Orchestration Cluster and powers mission-critical processes for customers around the world.

As part of the Distributed Systems team, you will work on technically challenging and rewarding projects, such as expanding on our multi-Raft implementation, our SWIM-based cluster membership algorithm, or high performance network and disk I/O pipelines.

At Camunda, we approach engineering in a holistic manner. As such, you will form strong partnerships with product management, design, QA, and sales, and work with your peers to not only deliver but directly influence the evolution of our platform to meet our customer’s needs.

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What You Will Do:

• Design, build, and maintain backend services for the distributed streaming platform that powers the foundation for Camunda 8’s orchestration capabilities, ensuring durability, high availability, and horizontal scalability.

• Lead medium-to-large engineering initiatives (3+ months) end-to-end: partner with Product to translate business problems into technical requirements, write solution designs, draft and maintain project plans, and drive timely, high-quality delivery.

• Help mature our disaster recovery and resilience story, including implementing and evolving an online backup/restore API and contributing to improved multi-region and multi-tenant capabilities for our cloud offering.

• Design and implement developer and operator tooling that makes it easier to understand, troubleshoot, and safely operate a complex distributed system in production environments.

• Improve engineering effectiveness by collaborating with DevOps and other Core Application teams on CI, testing, and local development workflows to reduce PR time-to-merge and the overhead of working on multiple features in parallel.

• Participate in L3 support and on-call rotations, partnering closely with Support and SRE to investigate and resolve complex, performance-sensitive production issues, and feeding what you learn back to our product and platform.

What You Will Bring to the Role:

Must Haves:

• 7+ years of professional experience as a software engineer, with a strong focus on backend systems and/or distributed systems.

• Proven experience leading medium-to-large engineering initiatives (roughly 3+ months), breaking down ambiguous problems, writing clear solution designs and project plans, coordinating with multiple teams, and driving predictable delivery.

• Hands-on experience building and maintaining highly concurrent, data-intensive software, with a deep understanding of low-level network and disk I/O (for example, throughput, latency, backpressure, batching, and failure modes).

• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and navigate ambiguity – you are comfortable taking on problems you haven’t solved before, breaking them down into concrete steps, and driving them to completion with minimal supervision.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills in a remote-first environment: you tailor explanations to your audience, translate business requirements into actionable technical work with Product, and help teams reach clear, decisive outcomes with minimal churn.

Nice to Haves:

• Experience building workflow automation or process orchestration software.

• Experience with distributed systems algorithms or protocols such as Raft, Paxos, SWIM, and/or CRDTs.

• Strong familiarity with the observability pillars (logging, metrics, tracing) and how to integrate observability into the development and incident lifecycle, ideally including experience with L3 support and on-call.

• Deep knowledge of the Java Virtual Machine, especially its memory model and performance characteristics in highly concurrent, data-intensive workloads.

This role is an existing vacancy

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What We Have to Offer:

Compensation

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

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!

Come join us and be part of Camunda’s incredible journey: Make an impact at a pivotal moment in our story!

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