Job description
We’re Celonis, the global leader in Process Mining technology and one of the world’s fastest-growing SaaS firms. We believe there is a massive opportunity to unlock productivity by placing data and intelligence at the core of business processes - and for that, we need you to join us.
The Team: Celonis is one of the world’s most exciting companies ($13B valuation, 3k employees). Come help us in Redwood City by further developing a tightly-knit 10 engineer team that is designing and building Celonis’s full stack systems that enable users to write accurate queries and store their business definitions in a reusable manner. Since Knowledge is a platform capability that touches all parts of the Celonis product, you’ll encounter a variety of technical challenges and work closely with backend, PM, and UX partners to build best in class user experiences. You’ll help bring order to querying big data in creative and insightful ways while bringing the next generation of Celonis to all of our customers.
Join us if you want to grow in your engineering knowledge and management skills. You’ll leave your mark on a rapidly growing company.
The Role: As an Engineering Manager, you’re responsible for delivering robust full stack applications and libraries. You will be at the frontier of frontend development, pushing the boundaries of product, UX, and engineering to enhance the Process Intelligence Graph with the next generation of process mining.
Users need help categorizing and simplifying their data in order to explore and identify insights to optimize their unique business processes. We are building the next generation of process insights with object-centric process mining to help them save time and money.
If you are looking to be challenged and build solutions that scale, Celonis is the environment for you to thrive. There are a variety of tech stacks at Celonis, including but not limited to Java Spring Boot, Postgres, Vertica DB, Angular, Typescript, and more. We focus on building extensible, performant, reliable, and beautiful applications.
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:
- Build, lead and grow the Knowledge Full Stack team in Redwood City to successfully deliver their mission
- Use technical judgment and intuition about customer behavior to determine the best paths forward on the features we have and trade off properties like time to implement, maintainability, scalability, performance, etc.
- Work closely with other engineering teams, x-functional stakeholders, and leads to ensure the development and delivery of impactful product features that drive customer value and shape the overall product strategy
- Manage the performance and support the career development of engineers up to the Staff level
- Build and maintain an engineering culture of trust, ownership, and collaboration within the larger organization, including providing upward and outward visibility of the team and their work.
The product you’ll work on:
- You’ll help build the next generation of process mining!
- Allows the user to add semantic meaning to their business graph which they can then query in milliseconds
- A best-in-class query authoring experience that guides users through answering their deepest process mining focussed questions
- Helps users store and reuse their business definitions while building applications on the platform
- High visibility to sales & executive leadership
The qualifications you need:
- 3+ years of experience in an Engineering Manager or technical leadership position leading projects and people
- Strong technical knowledge (staff engineer-level knowledge of software engineering is expected)
- Experience working with technologies like Angular, Java, Postgres, and microservices
- Strong communication skills (English), allowing you to collaborate smoothly with people across multiple roles & countries
- Ability to work earlier in the day to coordinate with Europe timezones
- Knowledge of day-to-day team organization methodologies like agile
- Ability to lead and make decisions to define the road ahead
- Ability to resolve technical conflicts when necessary, fostering a positive environment for escalations
- Ready to roll up your sleeves to help your team
The base salary range below is for the role in the specified location, based on a Full Time Schedule.
Total 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 actual total compensation offer will be determined based on various factors, including, but not limited to, applicant’s qualifications, skills, experiences, and location.
The base salary range below is for the role in California, based on a Full Time Schedule.
$175,000—$235,000 USD
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.
- 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.
Your Privacy:
Any information you submit to Celonis as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Celonis’ Accessibility and Candidate Notices
By submitting this application, you confirm that you agree to the storing and processing of your personal data by Celonis as described in our Privacy Notice for the Application and Hiring Process.
Please be aware of common job offer scams, impersonators and frauds. Learn more here.
