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Senior Software Engineer, Backend in Canada

  • Camunda
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Remote

Responsibilities

  • Design and build core streaming infrastructure that separates process data access from the live execution engine using durable, low-cost storage.
  • Build supported customer-facing integrations with systems such as Kafka so customers can export process data into their own tools.
  • Rebuild how Camunda’s analytics product consumes and serves process data at scale outside the engine’s critical path.
  • Make architecture decisions concerning consistency and durability across distributed streaming pipelines as part of a small, high-ownership team.
  • Lead medium-to-large engineering initiatives from solution design and planning through cross-team coordination and predictable delivery.
  • Participate in L3 support and on-call rotations, investigate production data-layer issues with Support and SRE, and feed findings back into the product.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience as a backend engineer using Java, with a strong focus on distributed or data-intensive systems.
  • Hands-on experience with object storage systems such as S3, GCS, or Azure and reliable, idempotent upload and commit protocols.
  • Experience with Kafka or a similar streaming or event-log system.
  • Solid grounding in distributed systems fundamentals.
  • Demonstrated ability to drive technical initiatives through ambiguity in systems that are still being designed.
  • Proven experience leading engineering initiatives lasting 3+ months from design through delivery.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills in a remote-first environment, including translating requirements with Product and participating in code reviews.
  • Ability or willingness to use the Camunda product.
  • Preferred experience with Apache Iceberg, Parquet, lakehouse or data-lake architectures, RocksDB or similar embedded state stores, Apache Flink, stateful processing, local state backends, checkpointing, or object-storage-native streaming architectures such as WarpStream.

Benefits

  • Fully remote and global work arrangement with flexible working options, a home office budget, coworking-space support, and flexible time off.
  • Annual Kickoff, team offsites, Camundi Connection Budgets, meetup contributions, and local gatherings.
  • Locally tailored healthcare, Modern Health mental wellbeing support, and the Live Well Lifestyle Spending Account.
  • Retirement and pension plans, often with company contributions, plus life and disability insurance where relevant.
  • Up to $/€/£1,000 per year for self-directed learning, including courses, certifications, and books.
  • Equity through the Virtual Stock Option Plan where applicable.

Camunda

Camunda builds a process orchestration platform (Camunda 8) for enterprises to model, automate, and monitor complex workflows and decisions across systems, people, and AI agents. It sells commercial subscriptions and cloud services on top of its open-source Zeebe workflow engine, with governance ...

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