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. Trusted by over 700 organizations worldwide, including 9 of top 10 US banks, Camunda helps enterprises boost operational efficiency, accelerate time-to-value, and deliver better customer experiences. 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.

ranked 3rd in Flexa’s 2026 Most Flexible Companies We’re growing fast and looking for top talent to join our team. As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend on Camunda’s Distributed Systems team, you’ll help build and evolve the durable, highly available, horizontally scalable streaming platform that underpins Camunda 8’s Orchestration Cluster and powers mission‑critical processes for customers around the world.

As part of the Distributed Systems team, you will work on technically challenging and rewarding projects, such as expanding on our multi-Raft implementation, our SWIM-based cluster membership algorithm, or high performance network and disk I/O pipelines.

As such, you will form strong partnerships with product management, design, QA, and sales, and work with your peers to not only deliver but directly influence the evolution of our platform to meet our customer’s needs.

Design, build, and maintain backend services for the distributed streaming platform that powers the foundation for Camunda 8’s orchestration capabilities, ensuring durability, high availability, and horizontal scalability.

- Lead medium‑to‑large engineering initiatives (3+ months) end‑to‑end: partner with Product to translate business problems into technical requirements, write solution designs, draft and maintain project plans, and drive timely, high‑quality delivery.
- Help mature our disaster recovery and resilience story,



including implementing and evolving an online backup/restore API and contributing to improved multi‑region and multi‑tenant capabilities for our cloud offering.
- Improve engineering effectiveness by collaborating with DevOps and other Core Application teams on CI, testing, and local development workflows to reduce PR time‑to‑merge and the overhead of working on multiple features in parallel.
- Participate in L3 support and on‑call rotations, partnering closely with Support and SRE to investigate and resolve complex, performance‑sensitive production issues, and feeding what you learn back into our product and platform.

7+ years of professional experience as a software engineer, with a strong focus on backend systems and/or distributed systems.

- Proven experience leading medium‑to‑large engineering initiatives (roughly 3+ months), breaking down ambiguous problems, writing clear solution designs and project plans, coordinating with multiple teams, and driving predictable delivery.
- Hands‑on experience building and maintaining highly concurrent, data‑intensive software, with a deep understanding of low‑level network and disk I/O (for example, throughput, latency, backpressure, batching, and failure modes).
- Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and navigate ambiguity – you are comfortable taking on problems you haven’t solved before, breaking them down into concrete steps, and driving them to completion with minimal supervision.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills in a remote‑first workplace: you tailor explanations to your audience, translate business requirements into actionable technical work with Product, and help teams reach clear, decisive outcomes with minimal churn.

Experience building workflow automation or process orchestration software.

– Deep knowledge of the Java Virtual Machine, especially its memory model and performance characteristics in highly concurrent, data‑intensive workloads.

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Salary ranges are location-based, with Standard and Major markets (global tech hubs) reflecting local competition.

If you’re based elsewhere, you’ll be hired via Remote.Equity: We also offer equity (where applicable) through our Virtual Stock Option Plan (VSOP)

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.

- team offsites, and Camundi Connection Budgets, including contributing to meetups while travelling,, and local gatherings with fellow Camundi.
- 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, not just work, from: staying active, to caring for family, exploring personal passions, meaningful experiences, and investing in your financial wellbeing. 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!

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📌 Senior Software Backend Engineer - Remote (Canada)
🏢 Camunda
📍 Canada