Software Engineer, Backend - Distributed Systems

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.

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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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• • 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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