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

The Team

As part of our scaling Orchestration & Automation team, you'll have a huge impact on helping teams and engineers build and operate resilient, reliable and scalable systems. You'll have ownership over our product's health, ensuring end-to-end availability and peak performance, contributing to software development and maintenance.

You’ll get to sharpen your skills on the latest tech stack in the areas of DevOps tooling, CICD, Containerization, orchestration, and cloud infrastructure as code. Interacting with your engineering team and the Platform and SRE organization in Celonis.

The Role

We’re looking for an experienced DevOps or Platform Engineer with interest in software engineering and prior skills in both fields —someone with strong ownership of end-to-end systems and eager to take on expanded responsibilities beyond the team boundaries. You’ll design, build, and scale our services, mentor peers and drive best practices. With your help we’ll automate & operate these systems using the latest technologies and practices.

Key Responsibilities

Author, manage, and optimize CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and ArgoCD
Deploy and manage applications on Kubernetes clusters
Automate operational tasks and infrastructure as code
Monitor and manage our environments by integrating telemetry and observability into the platform. Maintain best practices around notifications and response processes
Design, own, support and drive the investigation and resolution of incidents and issues in production
Collaborate and develop on backend services in Java with Spring Boot and maintain and enhance existing systems
Partner with Product, Platform, SRE and QA to deliver end-to-end solutions with the highest level of availability & reliability
Conduct code reviews, promote best practices, and mentor junior developers on DevOps related topics
Guide a technical roadmap to ensure our systems are up to the most modern standards and best practices

Qualifications

Minimum 3–5 years of professional software engineering experience owning complex systems
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and GitOps (ArgoCD)
Familiarity with ElasticSearch, Kubernetes, Kustomize and Terraform are a plus
Experience working with various public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and modern cloud monitoring system observability frameworks (e.g., Datadog).
Solid knowledge of scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, Ruby...).
Strong Java (Spring Boot) expertise with RESTful APIs and microservices
Knowledge of distributed system (architectures) and concurrency patterns
Familiarity with RabbitMQ or Kafka message brokers, or similar systems
Comfort with Scrum, Kanban, and Jira-based planning
Excellent English communication and a proactive, continuous-learning mindset
Familiarity with GO, or strong willingness to learn

What Celonis Can Offer You:

Pioneer Innovation: Work with the leading, award-winning process mining technology, shaping the future of business.
Accelerate Your Growth: Benefit from clear career paths, internal mobility, a dedicated learning program, and mentorship opportunities.
Receive Exceptional Benefits: Including generous PTO, hybrid working options, company equity (RSUs), comprehensive benefits, extensive parental leave, dedicated volunteer days, and much more. Interns and working students explore your benefits here.
Prioritize Your Well-being: Access to resources such as gym subsidies, counseling, and well-being programs.
Connect and Belong: Find community and support through dedicated inclusion and belonging programs.
Make Meaningful Impact: Be part of a company driven by strong values that guide everything we do: Live for Customer Value, The Best Team Wins, We Own It, and Earth Is Our Future.
Collaborate Globally: Join a dynamic, international team of talented individuals.
Empowered Environment: Contribute your ideas in an open culture with autonomous teams.

About Us:

Celonis makes processes work for people, companies and the planet. The Celonis Process Intelligence Platform uses industry-leading process mining and AI technology and augments it with business context to give customers a living digital twin of their business operation. It’s system-agnostic and without bias, and provides everyone with a common language for understanding and improving businesses. Celonis enables its customers to continuously realize significant value across the top, bottom, and green line. 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.

Celonis Inclusion Statement:

At Celonis, we believe our people make us who we are and that “The Best Team Wins”. We know that the best teams are made up of people who bring different perspectives to the table. And when everyone feels included, able to speak up and knows their voice is heard - that's when creativity and innovation happen.

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