Senior Software Engineer - Engine Orchestration

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.

• Lead the design and delivery of the services our team owns across new and existing microservices in Java, Spring, RabbitMQ and Postgres, from architecture through to production operation
• Evolve the new premium query engine by owning and delivering entire feature sets addressing new and extended use cases, tightened security robustness, and closing gaps
• Drive query engine migration milestones end to end and ensure operationability across their shared libraries as dependency workflows grow more frequent and complex
• Establish and extend AI agent tooling to carry repetitive operational and development processes across our team
• Sustain the operational and security robustness of our Tier 0 and Tier 1 services throughout feature development and the migration, and take part and improve how the on-call rotation works

• University degree in Computer Science or comparable education
• 5+ years of professional experience building Java applications that are scalable, reliable and testable, including owning it in production
• Fluency in Java and Python is required
• Strong experience with data-intensive, performance-critical distributed systems
• Experience rolling out changes across a large fleet of distributed systems, and the instinct for incremental, reversible, measurable steps that comes with it
• A track record of developing and operating systems that process data workloads at scale
• Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms from a performance point of view, and of asynchronous and concurrent programming
• Ability to turn a vague, customer-facing problem into a concrete executable plan, and to explain that plan to stakeholders who are not engineers
• Excellent communication skills in English, German is a plus
• Preferred experience: Java Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Databases, C++

• Pioneer Innovation: Work with the global leader in Process Mining and the Process Intelligence Graph to shape the future of AI-driven business operations.
• Ownership from Day 1: Every full-time "Celonaut" is an owner, receiving Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and merit-based refresh grants.
• Unrivaled Family Support: Benefit from our inclusive parental leave policy—24 weeks of fully paid leave for primary carers and 12 weeks for supporting carers, available from your first day of employment.
• Work-Life Integration: Enjoy Unlimited PTO (in applicable regions) and generous PTO globally, as well as a flexible hybrid work model that balances remote focus with vibrant office collaboration.
• Continuous Growth: Elevate your skills through our 70-20-10 learning framework, mentorship programs, and access to a dedicated learning platform.
• Holistic Well-being: Prioritize your health with subsidized Wellhub memberships, mental health counseling, and dedicated "Wellness Weeks" that prioritize work/life balance.
• Drive Sustainability: Participate in annual Impact Days, where you receive paid time off to volunteer for community and environmental causes with your local office, or virtually.
• Global Inclusion & Belonging: Find community through our Inclusion Think Tank and participate in our annual Inclusion Days, ensuring every voice is heard and valued.
• Value-Driven Impact: Join a mission-led organization where our core values—Live for Customer Value, The Best Team Wins, We Own It, and Earth Is Our Future—drive every decision.