Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Role Description

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).

Every day at Camunda, you’ll help us build robust systems, empower teams, and deliver a great user experience—even in failure scenarios.

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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.
• Use different languages, tools and frameworks like Java, Go, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.
• 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.
• Advocate for user-centric reliability by using and understanding Camunda’s products firsthand.

Defining success for this role:

• After 3 months, you have designed and delivered a way to run quick and reproducible load tests, allowing us to reduce the feedback loops for engineers.
• After 3 months, you have designed and implemented a realistic, automated, holistic load testing framework for Optimize, in close collaboration with Senior Engineers and Field teams.

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.
• 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.

What We Have to Offer:

• Competitive, fair, and transparent compensation.
• Equity through our Virtual Stock Option Plan (VSOP).
• Remote & Flexible work options.
• Health & Wellbeing benefits tailored locally.
• Professional Growth support for self-driven learning.

Company Description

“Everyone is welcome at Camunda” — it’s a celebrated component of our culture. We strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our people. At Camunda, we honour diverse cultures and backgrounds and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.