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Camunda

Software Engineer, Backend - Core/API & Process Automation

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About this role

Join Camunda's Core/API & Process Automation team to work on the event-sourced, distributed workflow engine powering business-critical processes for thousands of customers. You'll tackle genuine distributed-systems challenges including event sourcing, concurrency, and performance optimization, while helping shape the future of AI-driven process automation.

What you'll do

  • Build and evolve features in the event-sourced engine and REST/gRPC APIs using command/event and CQRS patterns
  • Own well-scoped work end-to-end from implementation through testing and shipping, including design contributions and ADRs
  • Ship high-impact engine features like process suspension/resumption and AI agent steering capabilities
  • Design and consume clean APIs with strong developer ergonomics and backward compatibility
  • Detect and optimize inefficient processing patterns across RocksDB, Elasticsearch, and Postgres data stores
  • Maintain code quality through collaborative reviews, testing, and on-call participation

What they're looking for

  • Distributed systems and event sourcing
  • Java or similar systems programming language
  • Concurrency and ordering challenges
  • Database optimization (RocksDB, Elasticsearch, Postgres)
  • API design (REST, gRPC)
  • Performance profiling and observability
  • CQRS patterns
  • Open source development practices

Benefits

  • Fully remote and global team
  • High-impact work affecting thousands of customers
  • Opportunity to work on AI-driven process automation
  • Learning from senior engineers and growing fast
  • Open source contribution (Zeebe)
  • 2025 Great Place to Work certified
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Camunda

Camunda builds business process automation and CI/CD infrastructure platforms, with emerging focus on AI-powered process orchestration through products like ProcessOS. The company is hiring Software Engineers for infrastructure scaling and Forward Deployed Engineers to drive enterprise customer deployments across Java and React tech stacks.

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Likely interview questions

  • Tell us about a time you debugged a complex concurrency or distributed systems issue—what was your approach?
  • How do you balance shipping features quickly with maintaining data integrity and preventing process failures?
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