Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Camunda is the leader in enterprise agentic automation, orchestrating complex business processes, including high-value knowledge work, across agents, people, and systems. By creating production-ready, enterprise-grade agents with built-in governance, Camunda uniquely delivers trusted AI agents for business-critical processes. Over 700 leading innovators like Atlassian, ING, and Vodafone, rely on Camunda to slash time-to-value from months to days, boost operational efficiency, and elevate customer experiences.

As a fully remote, global company, we’re rewriting the rules of modern business. Named GP Bullhound’s 2024 Top 100 Next Unicorn list, certified as a Great Place to Work, and recognized by Flexa for true flexibility, we’re growing fast and looking for top talent to join our team. If you’re excited to do meaningful work and make real impact, keep reading, this role could be the one you’ve been waiting for.

About The Role

If you’re passionate about pushing the limits of reliability, fault-tolerance, and operational excellence in complex distributed systems, Camunda offers the perfect stage.

As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend, you’ll take ownership of automated reliability testing and chaos engineering at the core of Camunda 8. This role thrives on curiosity, experimentation, and relentless improvement—you’ll break things (on purpose!) in safe environments to strengthen our platform before customers ever feel the impact. Here, you’ll make a measurable impact and guide product direction, all while learning new technologies and collaborating with talented, friendly colleagues who live our FAITH values (Focus, Ambition, Integrity, Talent, and Humor).

Every day at Camunda, you’ll help us build robust systems, empower teams, and deliver a great user experience—even in failure scenarios.

Curious about the kind of challenges you'll work on at Camunda? Watch this quick 30-minute talk from our engineers to learn more about the new Camunda Exporter and how we’re solving complex problems at scaleWhat You’ll Be Doing

• Design, implement, and execute automated chaos experiments and reliability tests, validating Camunda's platform under real-world scenarios

• You will investigate, root-cause and debug potential failures or performance regressions of our Java based products

• Continuously improve existing load testing, chaos engineering and observability infrastructure to keep our system reliable and performant

• Here we use different languages, tools and frameworks like java, go, kubernetes, prometheus, grafana, etc.

• As an example of the above you can check out this CamundaCon recording or this blog post

• Introduce new tooling and approaches for reliability testing, driving measurable improvements to operational experience and user outcomes (examples from the past: introducing zbchaos as fault injection tool)

• Collaborate closely with QA and engineering (including cross-functional teams), sharing learnings (e.g. with our team blog) and influencing team roadmaps based on experiment findings

• Champion a pragmatic, autonomous approach to software design, solving tough problems and learning new principles and technologies (Kubernetes, Helm, Grafana, Java, Go, and more)

• Advocate for user-centric reliability by using and understanding Camunda’s products firsthand

What You Bring

• 5+ years of experience in backend software engineering (Java)
• Proven drive to experiment, learn new tech, and conduct automated reliability and chaos testing in distributed environments
• Deep enthusiasm for improving performance and fault-tolerance in production systems
• Autonomous, pragmatic problem-solving skills with an ability to guide and influence others
• Willingness and ability to use Camunda products and approach reliability from a user’s perspective
• Ability and/or willingness to use our product

Nice-to-haves

• Hands-on experience with Go or other languages, in a multi-language context
• Working as SRE on distributed systems, with a strong software engineering mindset before
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes, Helm Charts, Operators, and related production infrastructure
• Experience running apps in production, with solid skills in monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance analysis
• Background in chaos engineering, automated reliability, load, or performance testing

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Compensation

What We Have to Offer:

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 $197,700.00
• Germany: €77,400.00 to €128,100.00
• United Kingdom: £75,300.00 to £123,800.00
• Singapore: S$148,900.00 to S$0.00

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 an annual fitness reimbursement.
• 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!
• More of what we offer globally & in your country can be found 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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