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Salary: USD 176,000 - 238,000 / annual
Celonis is the trusted platform to industrialize Enterprise AI, combining process data, business knowledge, and intelligence into a living digital twin of the enterprise. The company's core offering is the Celonis Context Model, which enables AI to understand operational processes with clarity.
You will join the Query Engine and Core Mining teams, working alongside experienced ex-FAANG engineers to develop state-of-the-art technology. The team creates foundational solutions including a mining engine for interactive process mining over enterprise-scale datasets and object-centric modeling tools for process-oriented business analysis. The company is heavily investing in performance and scalability to support strong customer growth in a multi-cloud environment.
In this role, you will develop and implement new features and algorithms for the core engine, increasing reliability and performance of existing components. Your responsibilities include:
- Identify and implement novel query optimization, transaction management, and distributed data processing algorithms in the Core Mining Engine
- Analyze and solve performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system
- Address issues from logical execution plan representations to efficient resource management and highly parallel vectorized execution
- Design and implement critical high-performance systems to handle growing request rates on the database
- Evangelize best practices in database usage and end-to-end architecture
- Mentor and grow teammates, setting an example through your work
- Improve the developer work environment and contribute to engineering culture
- Write clean, understandable, and testable code with peer feedback
- Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
- Document development procedures, concepts, and knowledge
- Build, launch, and maintain features in production
Celonis offers ownership from day one with Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and merit-based refresh grants, a flexible hybrid work model, unlimited PTO (in applicable regions), 24 weeks of fully paid parental leave for primary carers, subsidized wellness memberships, and access to a dedicated learning platform with mentorship programs.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 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)
- Analytical mind with good understanding of complex data structures and algorithms in data management
- Curiosity about how things work and desire to improve them
