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Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Distributed Systems)

United States
Full Remote
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Build and evolve a durable, highly available, horizontally scalable distributed streaming platform for Camunda 8 orchestration. Lead medium-to-large backend engineering initiatives end-to-end, partnering with Product and other teams to deliver high-quality outcomes. Bring 7+ years of backend/distributed systems experience, strong knowledge of concurrent, data-intensive software, and excellent remote-first communication.

Key Highlights
Senior backend role on Camunda’s Distributed Systems team powering Camunda 8’s Orchestration Cluster
Work on multi-Raft, SWIM-based cluster membership, and high-performance network/disk I/O pipelines
Own disaster recovery/resilience tooling and participate in L3 support and on-call rotations
Key Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain backend services for the distributed streaming platform that powers Camunda 8 orchestration capabilities, ensuring durability, high availability, and horizontal scalability.
Lead medium-to-large engineering initiatives end-to-end by translating business problems into technical requirements, writing solution designs, drafting and maintaining project plans, and driving timely, high-quality delivery.
Improve disaster recovery and resilience by implementing and evolving an online backup/restore API and contributing to improved multi-region and multi-tenant capabilities for the cloud offering.
Design and implement developer and operator tooling to make it easier to understand, troubleshoot, and safely operate a complex distributed system in production.
Improve engineering effectiveness by collaborating with DevOps and Core Application teams on CI, testing, and local development workflows to reduce PR time-to-merge and feature parallelization overhead.
Participate in L3 support and on-call rotations with Support and SRE to investigate and resolve complex, performance-sensitive production issues and feed learnings back into the product and platform.
Technical Skills Required
Distributed systems Backend software development High concurrency and data-intensive systems
Benefits & Perks
Fully remote and flexible work arrangement with home office budget, co-working support, and flexible time off
Competitive, fair, and transparent location-based compensation with annual total target cash ranges
Equity via Virtual Stock Option Plan (VSOP) where applicable and globally designed benefits including healthcare and mental wellbeing support
Nice to Have
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 observability pillars (logging, metrics, tracing) and integrating observability into the development and incident lifecycle, ideally including L3 support and on-call experience

Job Description

Camunda is , enabling organizations to coordinate 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. , including 9 of top 10 US banks, Camunda helps enterprises boost operational efficiency, accelerate time-to-value, and deliver better customer experiences. we are in the middle of something bigger: . 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, in for Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies. ranked
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