Software Engineer Backend - Core/API & Process Automation

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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.

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If you want meaningful work visible impact and put something genuinely rare on your CV keep reading.

About the role: Backend engineering rarely gets this consequential.

As a Software Engineer on Camunda's Core / API & Process Automation team you'll work on the beating heart of Camunda 8 — the event-sourced distributed workflow engine that executes business-critical processes for thousands of customers and through them millions of people worldwide.

Because you sit at the core one well-made improvement propagates outward through every integration and product built on top of it: a small change here is felt everywhere.

Few systems demand this.

You'll dig into the performance of the hot paths into versioning strategies for an engine that must faithfully replay every event it has ever written — forever and into the concurrency between the engine advancing a process and a user mutating that same process in the same instant.

And the bar is unforgiving: data must never be corrupted and a process must never get stuck — because when it does customers lose money.

This is genuine distributed-systems work — event sourcing ordering concurrency replay — not another CRUD app.

You'll also help build what comes next — including enabling AI agents to drive the engine cutting-edge work that stretches what the industry thinks automation can do.

You'll do it alongside a world-spanning team of highly skilled highly motivated engineers who share one goal: make Camunda the best workflow engine in the world.

And this is where you grow fast: you'll own well-scoped work end-to-end deliberately take on unfamiliar and uncomfortable problems to stretch yourself and learn from senior engineers you work beside every day — with everything shipping in the open (Zeebe is open source).

Curious about the kind of challenges you'll work on at Camunda?

Watch this quick 30-minute talk https://www.camundacon.com/event-session/camundacon-amsterdam-2025/one-exporter-to-rule-them-all-exploring-camunda-exporter/?on_demand=true from our engineers to learn more about the new Camunda Exporter and how we’re solving complex problems at scale What You’ll Be Doing: - Build and evolve features in the event-sourced engine and its C8 REST/gRPC/MCP API (command/event CQRS) with guidance on the harder design calls. - Own well-scoped work end-to-end — implement test and ship; contribute your ideas to solution designs and write clear design notes / ADRs. - Help ship high-impact engine features — like suspending and resuming individual process instances enabling AI agents to steer running processes and variable tracing — and watch them reach thousands of customers. - Design and consume clean APIs — good contracts developer ergonomics and an awareness of not breaking existing integrations. - Detect and optimize inefficient processing and data-access patterns across our data stores (RocksDB Elasticsearch/OpenSearch relational/Postgres) — growing into the harder cases — and build observability into what you ship. - Proactively flag issues and tech debt keep quality high through reviews and testing (collaborative not a lone hero) and participate in support / on-call as you ramp.

Must Haves: - Ability and/or willingness to use our product https://accounts.cloud.camunda.io/signup?_ga=2.47330343.127558761.1654184528-504024057.1654184528 - 2+ years professional backend engineering experience. - Solid grasp of event-driven systems and genuine eagerness to go deep on event sourcing / distributed systems — including a working understanding of consistency ordering and failure basics. - Good API design instincts (REST) — clean sensible contracts with awareness of backward compatibility. - Product thinking — you care about the outcome for users not just the ticket. - Strong manager of one — own your work and drive it forward without day-to-day management manage your own time and focus in a remote/async setting communicate progress and raise blockers early (self-directed but knows when to ask for help) and reliably follow through on what you commit to. - High growth drive — genuinely ambitious to level up and actively takes on unfamiliar uncomfortable challenges rather than staying in the comfort zone. - Clear written communication in a remote-first async setting.

Nice-to-haves: - Experience with workflow automation / process orchestration (BPMN or similar). - Comfort reasoning about query patterns in Elasticsearch/OpenSearch and relational/Postgres. - Familiarity with observability (logging metrics tracing). - Working JVM knowledge.

This role is an existing vacancy #LI-SG1 #LI-Remote #C1 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: $119 900.00 to $193 200.00 - United Kingdom: £75 300.00 to £123 800.00 - Singapore: S$148 900.00 to S$223 300.00 If you’re based elsewhere you’ll be hired via Remote.com http://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) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hoyQAPTZ5nV7J47D9n3yqK5hhLj160Xf36iyqEXNOWE/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.2qon7r4kdfe1.

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 https://camunda.com/ai-in-our-interviewing-process/ ”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!

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