Senior Software Engineer

Camunda is the enterprise platform for agentic orchestration, enabling organizations to coordinate AI agents, people, and systems across complex, end-to-end business processes. With built-in governance, auditability, and human oversight, Camunda gives enterprises the control they need to move AI from pilots to production — safely and at scale. Fully remote and global, we are in the middle of something bigger: transforming into an AI-first organisation, built on our own platform. We use Agentic AI to automate, orchestrate intelligent processes, and elevate human contribution across every team. 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 - You will 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 - Here we use different languages, tools and frameworks like java, go, kubernetes, prometheus, grafana, etc. - As an example of the above you can check out this CamundaCon recording to learn more about the new Camunda Exporter and how we’re solving complex problems at scale Defining success for this role: - Based on all of the above, you have end to end delivered a concrete task, e.g., a way to run quick and reproducible load tests - After 3 months, you have designed and delivered a holistic load testing framework for Optimize - Documented findings in public-facing documentation to help users better understand performance characteristics and guide their installation design. What You Bring: - 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 This role is an existing vacancy #LI-SK1 #LI-Remote #C1 What We Have to Offer: Compensation We offer competitive, fair, and transparent compensation. Salary ranges are location-based, with Standard and Major markets reflecting local competition. Equity: We also offer equity through our VSOP. Benefits & Perks Remote & Flexible: Work from anywhere with a home office budget, etc. In Person Connection: Annual Kickoff and team offsites. Health & Wellbeing: Global mental wellbeing programs and health accounts. Financial Security: Retirement and pension plans, life and disability insurance. Professional Growth: Up to 1,000 per year for self-driven learning. This is an Ashby API data feed entry.

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