Software Engineer, Backend - Core/API & Process Automation

Camunda is an enterprise platform for agentic orchestration that coordinates AI agents, people, and systems across complex business processes. The Software Engineer will build and evolve Camunda 8’s event-sourced distributed workflow engine and APIs, owning scoped work from design through delivery while improving performance, reliability, observability, and process automation capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Build and evolve features in the event-sourced engine and its C8 REST/gRPC/MCP API (command/event, CQRS), with guidance on the harder design calls
• Own well-scoped work end-to-end — implement, test, and ship; contribute your ideas to solution designs and write clear design notes / ADRs
• Help ship high-impact engine features — like suspending and resuming individual process instances, enabling AI agents to steer running processes, and variable tracing — and watch them reach thousands of customers
• Design and consume clean APIs — good contracts, developer ergonomics, and an awareness of not breaking existing integrations
• Detect and optimize inefficient processing and data-access patterns across our data stores (RocksDB, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, relational/Postgres) — growing into the harder cases — and build observability into what you ship
• Proactively flag issues and tech debt, keep quality high through reviews and testing (collaborative, not a lone hero), and participate in support / on-call as you ramp

Requirements:

• • Ability and/or willingness to use our product
• • 2+ years professional backend engineering experience
• • Solid grasp of event-driven systems and genuine eagerness to go deep on event sourcing / distributed systems — including a working understanding of consistency, ordering, and failure basics
• • Good API design instincts (REST) — clean, sensible contracts, with awareness of backward compatibility
• • Product thinking — you care about the outcome for users, not just the ticket
• • Strong "manager of one" — own your work and drive it forward without day-to-day management, manage your own time and focus in a remote/async setting, communicate progress and raise blockers early (self-directed, but knows when to ask for help), and reliably follow through on what you commit to
• • High growth drive — genuinely ambitious to level up, and actively takes on unfamiliar, uncomfortable challenges rather than staying in the comfort zone
• • Clear written communication in a remote-first, async setting
• • Experience with workflow automation / process orchestration (BPMN or similar)
• • Comfort reasoning about query patterns in Elasticsearch/OpenSearch and relational/Postgres
• • Familiarity with observability (logging, metrics, tracing)
• • Working JVM knowledge