Hiring: Software Engineer, Backend - Data Layer Company: Camunda Location: Raleigh, NC Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 11:01:03 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : CV, Data Pipeline, Elasticsearch, MariaDB, MySQL, OpenSearch, PostgreSQL, Product Management, SQL Server About the job Experience: •4 years of experience as a backend engineer, with a strong focus on backend systems and production data stores •At least 4 years of experience as a backend engineer, with a strong focus on backend systems and production data stores Required Skills: •As part of the Data Layer team, you will work on both technically challenging and rewarding projects, such as reshaping how we store and retain process data, streaming data to external systems, and evolving our secondary storage systems to perform at ever greater scale. •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, build, and maintain backend services for the data layer that stores and serves Camunda 8's process data, spanning relational databases and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, with an eye toward correctness, performance, and scale. •Own the end-to-end delivery of engineering initiatives, working with Product Management and senior colleagues to break down requirements into concrete solution designs, driving projects to timely and high-quality delivery. •Help evolve how we process, retain, and expose process data, so customers can work with their data the way they need to. •Invest in making our secondary storage systems more performant and scalable as usage grows, and build tooling that makes it easier to understand, troubleshoot, and safely operate the data layer in production. •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 at least one of PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MSSQL, or Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, with a practical understanding of query performance, indexing, and data modeling trade-offs •Comfortable investigating slow queries, execution plans, and index usage to root-cause data-related production issues. •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. •Understanding of database migration tooling (e.g. Liquibase, Flyway) and schema evolution in a live system. •This role is an existing vacancy Compensation: •$119,900 - $193,200 / 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!