144K–232K USD / year
Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Distributed Systems
BackendRemote — worldwide
Published on 2026-10-21
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About this role
Build and evolve the durable, highly available streaming platform behind Camunda 8’s orchestration cluster. The role focuses on distributed systems, resilience, and production operations, including leading multi-month engineering initiatives.
About the company
Camunda is a software company that provides process management and automation solutions, enabling organizations to model, execute, and optimize business processes. They serve a range of industries with a focus on improving operational efficiency and collaboration.
The team
Distributed Systems team
Stack
RaftSWIMJava Virtual Machine
What you'll do
- Design, build, and maintain a durable, scalable distributed streaming platform.
- Lead engineering initiatives end-to-end, from solution design and planning through delivery.
- Develop disaster recovery capabilities, including online backup and restore.
- Improve multi-region and multi-tenant capabilities for the cloud offering.
- Build tooling for troubleshooting and operating the distributed system.
- Improve CI, testing, and local development workflows with DevOps and other teams.
- Participate in L3 support and on-call rotations.
What we're looking for
- 7+ years of software engineering experience focused on backend or distributed systems.
- Experience leading multi-month engineering initiatives, including technical design, planning, and delivery.
- Hands-on experience with highly concurrent, data-intensive software and low-level network or disk I/O.
- Ability to work autonomously and navigate ambiguous problems.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills in a remote-first environment.
Nice to have
- Experience with workflow automation or process orchestration software.
- Familiarity with distributed systems algorithms or protocols such as Raft, Paxos, SWIM, or CRDTs.
- Observability experience with logging, metrics, and tracing, ideally including L3 support or on-call.
- Knowledge of JVM memory and performance in concurrent, data-intensive workloads.
Benefits
- Remote work, home-office budget, coworking support, and flexible time off.
- Equity through a Virtual Stock Option Plan where applicable.
- Annual learning budget of up to $/€/£1,000.
- Locally tailored healthcare, mental wellbeing support, and a lifestyle spending account.
- Retirement or pension plans, plus life and disability insurance where relevant.
- Annual company kickoff, team offsites, and connection budgets.