Staff Software Engineer

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>The Team</h3> <p>Celonis USA is the fastest-growing division of one of the world’s fastest-growing companies.&nbsp;</p> <p>Come join us on the ground floor on a team led by experienced ex-FAANG coworkers dedicated to developing state-of-the-art technology for Celonis products. The team creates foundational solutions such as a mining engine that enables our customers to interactively execute process mining over enterprise-sized data sets, as well as innovative object-centric modeling tools that empower users to perform process-oriented business analysis in a natural and powerful way. In order to handle the strong growth of our customer base and their demands, we are heavily investing in performance and scalability to ensure that our platform scales efficiently and dynamically in a multi-cloud environment.</p> <p>Join us if you want to grow in your engineering knowledge, your career, and leave your mark on a rapidly growing company.</p> <h3>The Role</h3> <p>We are looking for senior backend developers who enjoy building systems with the capability to manage big data. Within our Query Engine and Core Mining teams, we are looking for a Staff Software Engineer, who develops and implements new features and algorithms for our core engine and increases the reliability and performance of existing components. With your general knowledge of working with modern C++, coupled with experience in developing high-performance large-scale data processing systems, you will create new, innovative algorithms and operators for our query engine.</p> <h3>The work you’ll do</h3> <ul> <li>Identify and implement novel query optimization, transaction management, or distributed data processing algorithms in the Core Mining Engine</li> <li>Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them</li> <li>Deal with issues from logical representations of the execution plan to efficient resource management, all the way down to highly parallel vectorized execution</li> <li>Design and implement critical high-performance systems to handle the ever-growing request rate on our database</li> <li>Evangelize best practices in database usage and end-to-end architecture</li> <li>Set an example for and mentor and grow your teammates</li> <li>Recognize and take action to improve the developer work environment</li> <li>Write clean, understandable, and testable code</li> <li>Provide feedback on the designs and code of peers</li> <li>Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables</li> <li>Document development procedures, concepts and knowledge</li> <li>Build, launch, and maintain features in production</li> <li>Help define a fun and inclusive engineering culture</li> </ul> <h3>The qualifications you need</h3> <ul> <li>BS in Computer science; Masters or Ph.D. preferred</li> <li>8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience</li> <li>Significant background in database internals or building core components (query optimization, query execution, storage engines, transaction processing) for large-scale data processing systems (e.g., Starrocks, ClickHouse, etc)</li> <li>Experienced in programming with C++ (17)</li> <li>Have an analytical mind and a good understanding of complex data structures and algorithms in data management</li> <li>Have a curiosity about how things work and a desire to improve them</li> </ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"For positions in New York City only: We offer a base salary range of xxx – xxx, based on a Full Time Schedule. \n\nTotal compensation package will include base salary + bonus/commission + equity + benefits (health, dental, life, 401k, and paid time off). Please note that the base salary range is a guideline, and that the actual total compensation offer will be determined based on various factors, including, but not limited to, applicant's qualifications, skills, experiences, and location. "}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":4480,"10":0,"11":4,"15":"Arial"}">The base salary range below is for the role in the specified location, based on a Full Time Schedule. <br><br>Total compensation package will include base salary + bonus/commission + equity + benefits (health, dental, life, 401k, and paid time off). Please note that the base salary range is a guideline, and that the actual total compensation offer will be determined based on various factors, including, but not limited to, applicant's qualifications, skills, experiences, and location.</span></div><div class="title">The base salary range below is for the role in New York, based on a Full Time Schedule. </div><div class="pay-range"><span>$194,000</span><span class="divider">—</span><span>$260,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong>What Celonis can offer you:</strong></p> <ul class="p-rich_text_list p-rich_text_list__bullet p-rich_text_list--nested" data-stringify-type="unordered-list" data-list-tree="true" data-indent="0" data-border="0"> <li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Pioneer Innovation:</span> Work with the global leader in Process Mining and the Process Intelligence Graph to shape the future of AI-driven business operations.</li> <li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Ownership from Day 1:</span> Every full-time "