Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Reliability

Camunda isthe enterprise platform for agentic orchestration, enabling organizations to coordinateAI agents, people, and systemsacross 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.NamedGP Bullhound’s Top 100 Next Unicorn list,2025 Great Place to Work certified.Visionaryin2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™for Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies. ranked3rd in Flexa's 2026Most 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.

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What You’ll Be Doing:
* Design, implement, and execute automated chaos experiments and reliability tests, validating Camunda's platform under real-world scenariosYou will investigate, root-cause and debug potential failures or performance regressions of our Java based products
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
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 performantHere 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 CamundaConrecordingor thisblog post
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.
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 CamundaConrecordingor thisblog post
As an example of the above you can check out this CamundaConrecordingor thisblog post
* Introduce new tooling and approaches for reliability testing, driving measurable improvements to operational experience and user outcomes (examples from the past: introducingzbchaos as fault injection tool)
Introduce new tooling and approaches for reliability testing, driving measurable improvements to operational experience and user outcomes (examples from the past: introducingzbchaos as fault injection tool)
* Collaborate closely with QA and engineering (including cross-functional teams), sharing learnings (e.g. with ourteam blog) and influencing team roadmaps based on experiment findings
Collaborate closely with QA and engineering (including cross-functional teams), sharing learnings (e.g. with ourteam 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)
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