Staff Software Engineer

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

The Team:

Our team provides a scalable identity management infrastructure to support enterprise-grade authentication/authorization. We enable customers to access the right resources when needed while keeping them safe.

Our team mainly owns Celonis’s identity provider, user management, and API gateway services and we evolve those in different areas:

Secure the system which includes upgrading our technology to well-proven standards (e.g. OAuth 2.0), making sure our systems are performant, reliable, and available. Our service is at the core of our product, without it, customers cannot use EMS at all.

Making it easier for customers to get started, for example, through different solutions like Single Sign-On (via SAML or OIDC) or programmatic user provisioning and de-provisioning (via SAML-JIT or SCIM). 

Enabling new use cases, that are not possible without early infrastructure developments and changes (e.g. modernizing authorization and authentication to allow modern permission systems).

The work you’ll do:

• Mentorship: you will need to build a strong relationship and understand the needs of the engineers around you. By sharing your experience and advice, you will help them to grow and advance on our engineer's ladder.
• Source of truth: you will need to resolve doubts and suggest approaches for other engineers in the team, related to specific frameworks, define algorithms, design patterns, and best practices.
• Providing engineering perspective: bring the engineering context and perspective into a product or company decision.
• Exploration: be able to organize the work to explore different future approaches while succeeding on already scoped tasks.
• Being Glue: doing the needed, but often invisible, tasks to keep the team moving forward and shipping its work.
• Write code: help to implement your decisions and establish good practices for the whole of the team.

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 and performing similar roles.
• 6+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer using Java
• Experience with Go is a plus
• Experience on identity providers, user management, and API gateway services
• Experience with security practices and concepts is a plus
• Proven experience in building and running cloud-native distributed systems.
• Able to demonstrate good skills across multiple technical areas besides the Backend, such as DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure 
• Ability to analyze and design complex software.
• Experience building scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Proven background in building cloud-native software in the Kubernetes ecosystem
• Deep understanding of modern engineering practices (Git strategy, CI/CD, testing, …) 
• Problem-first attitude: you’re able to understand the needs of our customers and see technology as a means to an end, not an end in itself.
• Ability to quickly learn new things without tight supervision.
• A proactive mindset and demonstrated experience in taking ownership.
• Problem-solving attitude.
• Collaborative team spirit.
• Fluent in English.

What Celonis Can Offer You:

• The unique opportunity to work with industry-leading process mining technology
• Investment in your personal growth and skill development (clear career paths, internal mobility opportunities, L&D platform, mentorships, and more)
• Great compensation and benefits packages (equity (restricted stock units), life insurance, time off, generous leave for new parents from day one, and more). For intern and working student benefits, click here.
• Physical and mental well-being support (subsidized gym membership, access to counseling, virtual events on well-being topics, and more)
• A global and growing team of Celonauts from diverse backgrounds to learn from and work with
• An open-minded culture with innovative, autonomous teams
• Business Resource Groups to help you feel connected, valued and seen (Black@Celonis, Women@Celonis, Parents@Celonis, Pride@Celonis, Resilience@Celonis, and more)
• A clear set of company values that guide everything we do: Live for Customer Value, The Best Team Wins, We Own It, and Earth Is Our Future

About Us:

Celonis helps some of the world’s largest and most esteemed brands make processes work for people, companies and the planet. With over 5,000 enterprise customer deployments across nearly every industry, the Celonis Process Intelligence Platform uses process mining and AI to give you a living digital twin of your business operation. It’s system-agnostic and without bias, and empowers companies to reduce waste, create value and benefit people across the top, bottom, and green lines. Since 2011, the Celonis platform has enabled its customers to identify more than $18 billion in value. Celonis is headquartered in Munich, Germany, and New York City, USA, with more than 20 offices worldwide.

Get familiar with the Celonis Process Intelligence Platform by watching this video.

Equal Opportunity at Celonis:

Celonis is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment and equal opportunity in all aspects of employment. We will not tolerate any unlawful discrimination or harassment of any kind. We make all employment decisions without regard to race/ethnicity, color, sex, pregnancy, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, transgender status, national origin, citizenship status, religion, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or any other factor protected by applicable anti-discrimination laws. As a US federal contractor, we are committed to the principles of affirmative action in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. Different makes us better. 

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