Senior Software Engineer, Backend

About the role

If you’re passionate about pushing the limits of reliability, fault-tolerance, and operational excellence in complex distributed systems, Camunda offers the perfect stage. As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend, you’ll take ownership of automated reliability testing and chaos engineering at the core of Camunda 8. This role thrives on curiosity, experimentation, and relentless improvement—you’ll break things (on purpose!) in safe environments to strengthen our platform before customers ever feel the impact. Here, you’ll make a measurable impact and guide product direction, all while learning new technologies and collaborating with talented, friendly colleagues who live our FAITH values (Focus, Ambition, Integrity, Talent, and Humor).

What You’ll Be Doing

• Design, implement, and execute automated chaos experiments and reliability tests, validating Camunda's platform under real-world scenarios.
• Investigate, root-cause and debug potential failures or performance regressions of our Java based products.
• Continuously improve existing load testing, chaos engineering and observability infrastructure to keep our system reliable and performant.
• Introduce new tooling and approaches for reliability testing, driving measurable improvements to operational experience and user outcomes.
• Collaborate closely with QA and engineering (including cross-functional teams), sharing learnings and influencing team roadmaps based on experiment findings.
• Champion a pragmatic, autonomous approach to software design, solving tough problems and learning new principles and technologies (Kubernetes, Helm, Grafana, Java, Go, and more).
• Advocate for user-centric reliability by using and understanding Camunda’s products firsthand.

Compensation

We offer competitive, fair, and transparent compensation. Salary ranges are location-based, with Standard and Major markets (global tech hubs) reflecting local competition. We also offer equity (where applicable) through our Virtual Stock Option Plan (VSOP) .

Benefits & Perks

• Remote & Flexible: Work from anywhere with the setup that suits you, home office budget, co-working space support, and flexible time off to recharge when you need it.
• In Person Connection: We invest in meaningful face time through our Annual Kickoff, team offsites, and Camundi Connection Budgets.
• Health & Wellbeing: Access locally tailored healthcare, Modern Health for global mental wellbeing, and our Live Well Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA), a flexible, global benefit that puts you in control of your whole life. The Live Well program launches in 2026 and scales to €1,000 annually from 2027.
• Financial Security: Retirement and pension plans (often with company contributions), plus life and disability insurance where relevant.
• Professional Growth: Up to $/€/£1,000 per year for self-driven learning: courses, certifications, books, you decide!

What You Bring

• Ability and/or willingness to use our product .
• 5+ years of experience in backend software engineering (Java).
• Proven drive to experiment, learn new tech, and conduct automated reliability and chaos testing in distributed environments.
• Deep enthusiasm for improving performance and fault-tolerance in production systems.
• Autonomous, pragmatic problem-solving skills with an ability to guide and influence others.
• Willingness and ability to use Camunda products and approach reliability from a user’s perspective.

Nice to Haves

• Hands-on experience with Go or other languages, in a multi-language context.
• Working as SRE on distributed systems, with a strong software engineering mindset before.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes, Helm Charts, Operators, and related production infrastructure.
• Experience running apps in production, with solid skills in monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance analysis.
• Background in chaos engineering, automated reliability, load, or performance testing.