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Senior Software Engineer

Celonis · New York, US, New York

Full-timeOn-sitePosted 26 September 2026
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Celonis is the trusted platform to industrialize Enterprise AI. At our core is the Celonis Context Model — which combines process data, business knowledge, and intelligence into a living digital twin of the enterprise that AI can actually understand, turning AI's operational blind spots into operational clarity. World's leading companies trust Celonis and its global ecosystem of partners to make their AI agents, people, systems, and processes work together, achieving transformational outcomes. We believe there's a massive opportunity to unlock global productivity and sustainability by giving AI the context to understand how every business process really works. Join our mission to make processes work for people, companies, and the planet. The Team 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. Join us if you want to grow in your engineering knowledge, your career and leave your mark on a rapidly growing company. The Role 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 senior C++ 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. The work you’ll do Identify and implement novel query optimization, transaction management, or distributed data processing algorithms in the Core Mining Engine Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them Deal with issues from logical representations of the execution plan to efficient resource management, all the way down to highly parallel vectorized execution Design and implement critical high-performance systems to handle the ever-growing request rate on our database Evangelize best practices in database usage and end-to-end architecture Set an example for and mentor and grow your teammates Recognize and take action to improve the developer work environment Write clean, understandable, and testable code Provide feedback on the designs and code of peers Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables Document development procedures, concepts and knowledge Build, launch, and maintain features in production Help define a fun and inclusive engineering culture The qualifications you need BS in Computer science; Masters or Ph.D. preferred 3+ years of hands-on software engineering experience 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) Experienced in programming with C++ (17) Have an analytical mind and a good understanding of complex data structures and algorithms in data management Have a curiosity about how things work and a desire to improve them <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 actu

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