Senior Software Engineer - Developer Tools

The Team:
Celonis USA is the fastest growing division of one of the world’s fastest growing companies. You’ll be on the ground floor with a friendly team led by experienced coworkers to bring our developer experience to the next level.
We prioritize understanding and improving the hindrances our engineers face in their daily workflow, no matter how small. We combine our years of experience with current industry best practices to create efficient, modern systems that work for our engineers and our customers. We value our team members and support growth within our organization. We provide tooling, training, and hands-on projects to help our teams scale vertically. You’ll be part of a larger team that is using big data in creative and insightful ways while scaling the product to 100x its current user base.

Join us if you want to grow in your engineering knowledge and career, and are eager to leave your mark on a rapidly growing company.

The Role:
You have worked in a product development or similar role and love helping other engineers bring out their best selves. Your passion is creating and improving systems to make software engineering easier.

In this role, you can expect to apply your experience in engineering to engineering itself. We’re looking for someone who is excited to create systems that are both for and by engineers. Our ideal candidate has experience building systems, and is ready to create and socialize new standards for efficient engineering with our teams.

Your work at Celonis will directly impact companies and people around the globe as they improve their processes to save money, reduce waste, improve automation and generally become more efficient. For example, Celonis can help a company understand their carbon footprint in order to reduce CO2 emissions and deliver a healthier planet for future generations.

The work you’ll do: 

• Leveraging Telepresence to enable local development on remote Kubernetes clusters
• Containerizing commonly used services and data storage solutions for local use
• Develop and deploy processes to roll out new tools and guides across 400+ engineers
• Support other teams in adopting them
• Some cajoling needed
• Standardizing CI/CD via versioning, modifying release processes, and creating GitHub workflows & actions
• Setting standards for development best practices by developing guides, linters, and static code analysis tools for Java and TypeScript
• Write extensive documentation of how to use the tools you build
• Listening to fellow engineers to learn what pains them daily, and taking initiative to improve it
• Drive new tools and practices adoption across Celonis dev teams
• Set an example for and mentor and grow your colleagues
• Write clean, understandable, and testable code
• Help define a fun and inclusive engineering culture 
• Provide feedback on the designs and code of peers

The qualifications you’ll typically need:

• • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of product development experience
  • Experience as a full stack engineer, working end to end 
  • Platform & tooling experience
  • Experience leading cross-team engineering projects
  • Experience working closely with product and and other stakeholders
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Passion and motivation to learn and grow as a software engineer
  • Preferred experience:
  1. Containerization tooling, such as: Kubernetes, Helm, Kustomize, Docker, and ArgoCD
  2. CI/CD systems; GitHub Actions preferred
  3. An object-oriented server language; Java preferred
  4. Common build tools; Make & Maven preferred
  5. *NIX systems and scripting; Python, Shell, and Go preferred 
  6. Web frontend tech; TypeScript and Angular preferred
  7. Networking and distributed systems