Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Reliability

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. Named GP Bullhound’s Top 100 Next Unicorn list, 2025 Great Place to Work certified. Visionary in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies. ranked 3rd in Flexa's 2026 Most Flexible Companies , We’re growing fast and looking for top talent to join our team. If you want meaningful work, visible impact and put something genuinely rare on your CV, keep reading.

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).

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

Curious about the kind of challenges you'll work on at Camunda? Watch this quick 30-minute talk from our engineers to learn more about the new Camunda Exporter and how we’re solving complex problems at scale

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 or this blog post

Introduce new tooling and approaches for reliability testing, driving measurable improvements to operational experience and user outcomes (examples from the past: introducing zbchaos as fault injection tool )

Collaborate closely with QA and engineering (including cross-functional teams), sharing learnings (e.g. with our team blog ) 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 (Kubernetes, Helm, Grafana, Java, Go, and more)

Advocate for user-centric reliability by using and understanding Camunda’s products firsthand

Defining success for this role:

Based on all of the above, you have end to end delivered a concrete task, as for example (the concrete goal will be defined during your onboarding):

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

directly fitting into the development lifecycle

Enable engineers to make use of it and extend it

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:

Conducted a deep-dive analysis of performance limits.