About this role
Celonis is the trusted platform to industrialize Enterprise AI. At our core is the Celonis Context Model — which combines process data, business knowledge, and intelligence into a living digital twin of the enterprise that AI can actually understand, turning AI's operational blind spots into operational clarity. World's leading companies trust Celonis and its global ecosystem of partners to make their AI agents, people, systems, and processes work together, achieving transformational outcomes. We believe there's a massive opportunity to unlock global productivity and sustainability by giving AI the context to understand how every business process really works. Join our mission to make processes work for people, companies, and the planet.
The Team:
As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will bring your general software engineering expertise to our innovative projects and continuously evolving concepts.
The Role:
You will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge cloud technology, stay on top of trends, and drive projects with an ever-increasing degree of independence. This is a unique opportunity for talented engineers to push their boundaries and think big.
The work you’ll do:
• Innovate beyond our existing products and bring new ideas to life for Celonis.
• Ownership of implementation and delivery of assigned projects.
• Demonstrate technical leadership in our engineering team.
• Ensure high quality and continuously improve procedures and practices.
• Work closely with your fellow engineers, project managers, and designers to create cohesive and efficient solutions.
• Collaborate with adjacent teams to drive a holistic project success spread across multiple geographies
• Learn and grow, not only in technical expertise but also in any other necessary aspects of making our projects reality.
• Brainstorm with the entire Celonis Labs team, research potential solutions, and ultimately bring them to life.
The qualifications you need:
• Bachelor's or master's degree in a technical field (e.g., Computer Science, Software Engineering) or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• 7+ years of experience as Backend Engineer with strong expertise in building microservices based products using Java, Spring framework, JPA, Hibernate is a must.
• Experience with building data pipelines in Databricks, ETL, Apache spark is a big plus.
• Relational databases; PostgreSQL a plus.
• Proficient in building cloud-native distributed systems.
• Able to demonstrate a generalist skill set across multiple technical areas besides the Backend, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure.
• Ability to analyse and design complex software.
• Experience building scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Proven background in building cloud-native software in the Kubernetes ecosystem, as well as with and on Hyperscalers such as AWS.
• Deep understanding of modern engineering practices (Git strategy, CI/CD, testin