Senior Software Engineer - Omnia

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p>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.</p></div><h3><strong>The Role</strong></h3> <p>We are looking for a <strong>Senior Backend Software Engineer (Java)</strong> to join the Provisioning &amp; Licensing team. This is a high-impact role that demands significant <strong>autonomy and ownership</strong>, driving the technical design and delivery of mission-critical systems.</p> <p>You will be responsible for our core provisioning pipeline. Additionally, you will <strong>apply your expertise and technical knowledge</strong> to support the development of our strategic <strong>Self-Managed Platform Solution</strong> 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.</p> <h3><strong>The Team: Provisioning &amp; Licensing</strong></h3> <p>You will be part of the <strong>Provisioning &amp; Licensing team</strong>, the vital "glue team" between our business functions and the core platform.</p> <ul> <li>The team owns the <strong>latency-sensitive internal APIs</strong> for automatically creating new tenants based on customer data, as well as our internal Feature &amp; Configuration system (<strong>like a car configurator, just for microservices!</strong>).</li> <li>Your team is a central internal unit with many touchpoints across other engineering teams and business teams like Licensing Management.</li> <li>When it comes to prioritization, we value your input and expect you to contribute actively to the prioritization discussions in our dynamic environment.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3><strong>The Tech Stack</strong></h3> <p>Our stack is modern, cloud-native, and focused on portability to support our strategic on-premise deployments.</p> <ul> <li><strong>Core Technologies:</strong> <strong>Java 25</strong>, <strong>Spring Boot</strong>, Postgres as the main datastore.</li> <li><strong>Containerization:</strong> We are all in on containerization and orchestration, running our applications on <strong>Kubernetes (K8s)</strong>.</li> <li><strong>Architecture:</strong> We develop within a new &amp; modern <strong>modular monolithic application</strong> with strongly enforced boundaries between the modules.</li> <li><strong>DevOps:</strong> Writing deployment files with the help of Kustomize and deploying our applications with Github CI and Kargo. We use <strong>Datadog</strong> for metrics, logs, and as our APM tool.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3><strong>The Work You’ll Do</strong></h3> <p>This role requires you to operate with a high degree of independence, owning complex technical problem spaces, and applying your expertise to strategic initiatives.</p> <ul> <li><strong>End-to-End Problem Ownership:</strong> <strong>Independently</strong> take ownership of significant portions of the development process from <strong>architecture</strong> to delivery. <strong>You build it, you own it!</strong> (We mean it.)</li> <li><strong>Self-Managed Solution Contribution:</strong> <strong>Contribute to the implementation</strong> of the <strong>Self-Managed Platform Solution</strong>. You will support the team by implementing components, tooling, and integration patterns, leveraging your knowledge of <strong>Kubernetes, IaC, and On-Premise environments</strong> to help package and operationalize our core platform.</li> <li><strong>Technical Strategy:</strong> Have a <strong>strong say in the technical vision and strategy</strong> for your team, balancing trade-off decisions between the cloud and self-managed deployment models (hello, complexity!).</li> <li><strong>Reliability &amp; Scalability:</strong> Continuously focus on the scalability and reliability of our services, upholding the defined latency SLAs.</li> <li><strong>Collaboration &amp; Documentation:</strong> Collaborate with other Engineering teams (i.e., Identity, Platform) to deliver broad-impact technical projects. Actively ensure high software quality standards and thoroughly <strong>document</strong> processes, concepts, and insights (<strong>help us save time later!</strong>).</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3><strong>The Qualifications You Need</strong></h3> <ul> <li><strong>7+ years</strong> of professional experience building high-performance <strong>Java</strong> applications.</li> <li>Strong practical experience with <strong>Spring frameworks</strong>.</li> <li>Expert-level familiarity with containerization (i.e., Docker) and proven experience deploying and managing applications on <strong>Kubernetes (K8s)</strong>.</li> <li>Experience with REST APIs and/or distributed micro-service architecture.</li> <li>Experience in writing and setting up comprehensive tests (unit and integration tests).</li> <li>Strong communication skills in English and a passion for clean and understandable code.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Nice to Have (High-Impact Skills):</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Infrastructure as Code (IaC):</strong> Hands-on experience with tools like <strong>Terraform</strong>.</li> <li><strong>Systems Programming:</strong> Experience with languages like <strong>Go</strong> for building automation and tooling.</li> <li><strong>On-Premise Experience:</strong> Prior experience with the architectural and operational challenges of <strong>On-Premise</strong> or <strong>Self-Managed</strong>