Software Engineer, Backend - Core/API & Process Automation

Camunda
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Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 2+ yearsSkills: ["Product thinking","Written communication","Self-direction","Ownership","Growth mindset"]

Build and evolve features in an event-sourced workflow engine and its C8 REST/gRPC/MCP APIs, owning end-to-end delivery from design notes and ADRs through implementation, testing, and shipping. Optimize hot paths and data-access patterns across RocksDB, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, and Postgres, while adding observability and maintaining backward-compatible contracts. Help enable AI agents to steer running processes and participate in support/on-call as you ramp.

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Software Engineer, Backend - Core/API & Process Automation

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Job Summary

Build and evolve features in an event-sourced workflow engine and its C8 REST/gRPC/MCP APIs, owning end-to-end delivery from design notes and ADRs through implementation, testing, and shipping. Optimize hot paths and data-access patterns across RocksDB, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, and Postgres, while adding observability and maintaining backward-compatible contracts. Help enable AI agents to steer running processes and participate in support/on-call as you ramp.
Location: Anywhere
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and evolve features in the event-sourced engine and its C8 REST/gRPC/MCP APIs (command/event, CQRS).
  • •Own well-scoped work end-to-end: implement, test, ship, and contribute to solution designs with clear design notes/ADRs.
  • •Ship high-impact engine features such as suspending/resuming process instances, enabling AI agents to steer processes, and variable tracing.
  • •Design and consume clean APIs with strong contracts and developer ergonomics while protecting existing integrations.
  • •Detect and optimize inefficient processing and data-access patterns across RocksDB, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, and Postgres; add observability and participate in reviews/testing and support/on-call as you ramp.

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Remote WorkHome OfficeHealth InsuranceLearning BudgetPensionLife InsuranceDisability Insurance

Key Requirements

  • •2+ years professional backend engineering experience.
  • •Solid grasp of event-driven systems and a deep interest in event sourcing/distributed systems (consistency, ordering, failure basics).
  • •Good REST API design instincts with awareness of backward compatibility.
  • •Product thinking: care about user outcomes beyond tickets.
  • •Strong “manager of one” capability to own work and communicate progress blockers in a remote/async setting.
Experience:2+ yearsDistributed systemsEvent sourcingWorkflow automationProcess orchestrationOpen sourceAgentic AI
Skills:Product thinkingWritten communicationSelf-directionOwnershipGrowth mindset
Tech Stack:Event sourcingCQRSRESTGRPCMCPAPI designZeebeOpen sourceRocksDBElasticsearchOpenSearchPostgresJVMObservabilityLoggingMetricsTracing

Company Brief

Camunda
Provides an open-source and commercial platform for process orchestration and workflow automation, enabling enterprises to design, execute, and monitor business processes across people, systems, and AI agents.
Industry: SaaS
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: Berlin, Germany
Founded: 2008
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