Senior Software Engineer Backend

### About Camunda Camunda is the leader in enterprise agentic automation, orchestrating complex business processes, including high-value knowledge work, across agents, people, and systems. We create production-ready, enterprise-grade agents with built-in governance, delivering trusted AI agents for business-critical processes. ### About the Role As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend at Camunda, you will help shape our next-generation analytics product for process orchestration. You’ll build reliable, high-throughput SaaS capabilities that turn massive data flows into clear insights and action. Collaborate closely with a talented global team to measure, improve, and scale performance and fault tolerance in real-world distributed systems. ### Responsibilities - Collaborate with reliability experts to measure, quantify, and articulate the load, throughput, and performance characteristics of our analytics platform. - Propose an iterative roadmap for performance and fault-tolerance improvements based on developed metrics and a deep understanding of the product architecture. - Implement, validate, and roll out performance improvements in stages, profiling, tuning, and verifying impacts in production-like conditions. - Design and build backend APIs (Java) and frontend dashboards (React) to retrieve, aggregate, and visualize analytics data from distributed data stores. - Create data exporters and connectors for third-party BI tools to pull detailed analytics from multiple distributed instances. - Contribute to code quality, test automation, observability, and collaborative design reviews. ### What You Bring - 5+ years as a full-stack Software Engineer with strong production experience in Java and React. - Curiosity and resilience in distributed systems, eager to experiment, learn daily, and “break things on purpose.”