Senior Software Engineer

Celonis • New York, NY

21d • $161,000 - $218,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Celonis is seeking a senior backend developer to join their Pricing service team. The role involves designing and implementing mission-critical core engines for processing usage telemetry, evaluating dynamic pricing models, enforcing feature entitlements, and powering cost analytics dashboards for enterprise customers. This position is ideal for someone who enjoys building resilient, low-latency, and high-throughput systems at scale, and wants to contribute to a rapidly growing company.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or related technical field; Master's or Ph.D. preferred.
• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building enterprise-grade backend services.
• Experienced in backend development using Java (Spring Boot framework expertise preferred).
• Strong background in real-time stream processing, message queues, or event-driven systems (e.g., Apache Kafka, Flink).
• Familiar with relational and non-relational database design (e.g., PostgreSQL, Redis) with a focus on data accuracy and idempotency.
• Familiar with containerization and cloud orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure).

Nice To Haves

• Preferred experience or strong interest in consumption-based pricing, metering infrastructure, financial ledgers, or billing integrations.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement critical, high-performance microservices to process, aggregate, and reconcile usage telemetry at massive scale with exact-once processing semantics.
• Evangelize best practices in distributed database usage, stream processing, and event-driven end-to-end architecture.
• Set an example for, mentor, and grow your teammates across engineering initiatives.
• Recognize and take action to improve system reliability, developer work environments, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Write clean, understandable, fault-tolerant, and testable code for billing-critical systems.
• Provide thoughtful feedback on technical designs, data schemas, and code reviews of peers.
• Manage individual project priorities, architecture decision records (ADRs), deadlines, and deliverables.
• Document development procedures, metering contracts, system concepts, and domain knowledge.
• Build, launch, and maintain business-critical backend services in production across multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Help define a fun, inclusive, and execution-driven engineering culture.

Benefits

• Total compensation package will include base salary + bonus/commission + equity + benefits (health, dental, life, 401k, and paid time off).
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and merit-based refresh grants.
• 24 weeks of fully paid leave for primary carers and 12 weeks for supporting carers.
• Unlimited PTO (in applicable regions) and generous PTO globally.
• Flexible hybrid work model.
• 70-20-10 learning framework, mentorship programs, and access to a dedicated learning platform.
• Subsidized Wellhub memberships, mental health counseling, and dedicated "Wellness Weeks".
• Paid time off to volunteer for community and environmental causes.
• Inclusion Think Tank and annual Inclusion Days.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior