Camunda logo
    C

    Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Data Layer

    Camunda
    Remote•EMEA
    Remote
    Senior
    Full Time
    💰$143,800 - $231,900
    remotebackendseniorsoftware engineerdata layerpostgresqlelasticsearchopensearchai-firstflexible

    Requirements

    • •At least 7 years of experience as a backend engineer with a strong focus on backend systems and production data stores.
    • •Deep experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, or MSSQL) and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, with understanding of query performance, indexing, and data modeling trade-offs.
    • •Proven experience leading medium-to-large engineering initiatives end-to-end including solution design, project planning, and coordination.
    • •Comfortable investigating slow queries, execution plans, and index usage to root-cause data-related production issues.
    • •Strong communication and collaboration skills in a remote-first environment, translating requirements into technical work and providing clear feedback in code review.

    What You'll Do

    • •Design, build, and maintain backend services for the data layer that stores and serves process data, spanning relational databases and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, focusing on correctness, performance, and scale.
    • •Own the end-to-end delivery of engineering initiatives, working with Product Management and colleagues to break down requirements into solution designs and drive projects to timely and high-quality delivery.
    • •Help evolve how process data is processed, retained, and exposed to meet customer needs.
    • •Invest in making secondary storage systems more performant and scalable and build tooling for understanding, troubleshooting, and safely operating the data layer in production.
    • •Participate in L3 support and on-call rotations, partnering with Support and SRE to investigate production issues and feed learnings back into the product.

    Nice to Have

    • •Experience building workflow automation or process orchestration software.
    • •Experience working with both relational databases and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch.
    • •Experience building or maintaining CI pipelines.
    • •Understanding of database migration tooling (e.g. Liquibase, Flyway) and schema evolution in a live system.

    Benefits

    • •Remote & Flexible work from anywhere with home office budget, co-working space support, and flexible time off.
    • •In Person Connection through Annual Kickoff events, team offsites, and Camundi Connection Budgets including meetups and local gatherings.
    • •Health & Wellbeing benefits including locally tailored healthcare, Modern Health for mental wellbeing, and Live Well Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA) with up to €1,000 annually from 2027.
    • •Financial Security with retirement and pension plans, life and disability insurance where relevant.
    • •Professional Growth allowance up to $/€/£1,000 per year for self-driven learning such as courses, certifications, and books.

    About Camunda

    Camunda enables organizations to orchestrate and automate processes to overcome complexity, increase efficiency, and operationalize AI.

    Berlin, Germany
    500-1000
    IT Services & Consulting