Senior Software Engineer - Engineering Productivity

We're Celonis, the global leader in Process Intelligence technology and one of the world's fastest-growing SaaS firms. We believe there is a massive opportunity to unlock productivity by placing AI, data and intelligence at the core of business processes - and for that, we need your help. Care to join us?

Celonis makes processes work for people, companies and the planet. The Celonis Process Intelligence Platform uses industry-leading process mining and AI technology and augments it with business context to give customers a living digital twin of their business operation. It's system-agnostic and without bias, and provides everyone with a common language for understanding and improving businesses. Celonis enables its customers to continuously realize significant value across the top, bottom, and green line. Celonis is headquartered in Munich, Germany, and New York City, USA, with more than 20 offices worldwide.

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• The Team: As part of the Engineering Productivity team, you work with a group of people that have deep expertise in a particular field of software engineering. The aim of our team is to provide tooling, frameworks, and test setups that streamline development, testing, and debugging. On top we maintain crucial libraries that are used along the whole engineering org to foster reliability, performance and security.
• You'll work closely with many engineering roles including developers, SREs, SETs, product managers, and QEs, advocating shift left and building the practices that make performant, high quality systems part of our DNA.
• The Role:
• As a Senior Software Engineer in our Engineering Productivity team, you will play a crucial role in optimizing the development velocity and technical excellence across our entire cloud-based ecosystem. A core responsibility will be the ownership and evolution of our central shared Java libraries, ensuring its high standards for performance, reliability, and security are continuously met and improved upon for all services. Beyond this critical component, you will actively identify inefficiencies across the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), designing and implementing innovative tools, frameworks, and automation solutions that empower our engineering teams to deliver high-quality software faster and with greater confidence.
• The work you'll do:
• Lead the development and evolution of our central shared Java libraries, continuously enhancing their performance, reliability, and security for use across all cloud-based services.
• Proactively identify and analyze inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and pain points within the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Architect and implement high-quality internal tools, frameworks, and automation solutions that directly address identified developer challenges, streamlining workflows, simplifying debugging, and accelerating testing for our engineering teams.
• Champion best practices and collaborate closely with engineering teams to ensure the adoption and effectiveness of productivity enhancements.
• Provide building blocks and guidance to engineering teams for tracking quality attributes like performance, scalability, traceability, accessibility and others
• Build quality gates into Continuous Delivery pipelines so that automated tests are run often and fail fast to provide earlier feedback on delivery risks

• University degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
• 5+ years of professional experience building Java applications
• Good understanding of Spring frameworks
• Problem-solving mindset, creativity, and simplicity
• Have a curiosity about how things work and a desire to improve them
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions
• Familiar with containerization technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills