About this role
Celonis is the global leader in Process Intelligence and the pioneer of Process Mining technology. As one of the world’s fastest-growing enterprise SaaS companies, we are changemakers pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. We invest heavily in advanced AI capabilities—specifically our Process Intelligence Graph—to turn data insights into immediate business action. We believe there is a massive opportunity to unlock global productivity and sustainability by placing intelligence at the core of every business process. Join our mission to make processes work for people, companies, and the planet.
The Role
We are looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer (Java) to join the Provisioning & Licensing team. This is a high-impact role that demands significant autonomy and ownership , driving the technical design and delivery of mission-critical systems.
You will be responsible for our core provisioning pipeline. Additionally, you will apply your expertise and technical knowledge to support the development of our strategic Self-Managed Platform Solution for highly regulated environments. If you thrive on complexity, enjoy taking architectural contributions from design to production, and want to own systems that directly enable multi-million dollar market expansion, this is your next role.
The Team: Provisioning & Licensing
You will be part of the Provisioning & Licensing team , the vital "glue team" between our business functions and the core platform.
• The team owns the latency-sensitive internal APIs for automatically creating new tenants based on customer data, as well as our internal Feature & Configuration system ( like a car configurator, just for microservices! ).
• Your team is a central internal unit with many touchpoints across other engineering teams and business teams like Licensing Management.
• When it comes to prioritization, we value your input and expect you to contribute actively to the prioritization discussions in our dynamic environment.
The Tech Stack
Our stack is modern, cloud-native, and focused on portability to support our strategic on-premise deployments.
• Core Technologies: Java 25 , Spring Boot , Postgres as the main datastore.
• Containerization: We are all in on containerization and orchestration, running our applications on Kubernetes (K8s) .
• Architecture: We develop within a new & modern modular monolithic application with strongly enforced boundaries between the modules.
• DevOps: Writing deployment files with the help of Kustomize and deploying our applications with Github CI and Kargo. We use Datadog for metrics, logs, and as our APM tool.
The Work You’ll Do
This role requires you to operate with a high degree of independence, owning complex technical problem spaces, and applying your expertise to strategic initiatives.
• End-to-End Problem Ownership: Independently take ownership of significant portions of the development process from architecture to de