Hiring: Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Data Streaming Company: Camunda Location: Boston, MA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 14:48:40 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : Azure, CV, Embedded Systems, Flink, Iceberg, Java, Kafka, Parquet, Product Management, S3 About the job Experience: •7+ years of experience as a backend engineer, in Java, with a strong focus on distributed or data-intensive systems. Required Skills: •Curious about the kind of challenges you'll work on at Camunda? Watch this quick •From our engineers to learn more about the new Camunda Exporter and how we’re solving complex problems at scale •Design and build the core streaming infrastructure that decouples process data access from the live execution engine, backed by durable, low-cost storage. •Build customer-facing data streaming capabilities, including a supported way to integrate with systems like Kafka, so customers can reliably get their process data into their own tools. •Help rebuild how Camunda's analytics product consumes and serves process data at scale, moving it off the engine's critical path entirely. •Make foundational architecture decisions as part of a small, high-ownership team, including how the system guarantees consistency and durability across a distributed streaming pipeline. •Participate in L3 support and on-call rotations, partnering with Support and SRE to investigate data layer production issues, and feeding what you learn back into the product. Qualifications: •Ability and/or willingness to use our product •Applied hands-on capability in object storage systems (S3/GCS/Azure or similar) and building reliable, idempotent upload/commit protocols against them. •Solid grounding in distributed systems fundamentals, even without core execution-engine experience specifically. •A demonstrated track record of driving a technical initiative through genuine ambiguity in a still-being-designed system, not just extending an established one. •Proven experience leading medium-to-large engineering initiatives (3+ months) end-to-end, from solution design, project planning, and coordinating across teams, right through to driving predictable delivery. •Strong communication and collaboration skills in a remote-first environment: you translate requirements into actionable technical work with Product, and give and receive clear, direct feedback in code review. •Operational familiarity with object-storage-native streaming architectures (e.g. systems like WarpStream) is a plus, even without direct hands-on experience. •This role is an existing vacancy Compensation: •$143,800 - $231,900 / year •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!