Jobs / United States / Celonis INC
Senior Software Engineer
Celonis INC · 🇺🇸 Redwood City, US, California
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 8 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 4 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Celonis INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles2 certified filings for “Software Engineer - Machine Learning” (Software Developers) in CA: $157k–$169k, median $163k. Most were filed at wage level I (50%) — 1 lottery entry, ≈15% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Celonis INC
The US Department of Labor certified 8 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 4 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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 Celonis USA is the fastest-growing division of one of the world’s fastest-growing companies. Come join us on the ground floor on a team dedicated to developing state-of-the-art technology for core Celonis services. The Data Core team builds an engineering team to develop the high-throughput infrastructure that powers monetization, real-time consumption tracking, dynamic entitlement enforcement, and cost optimization across the Celonis services. As our global customer base expands, our backend services process billions of telemetry and usage events daily to deliver precise, transparent, and fault-tolerant billing data in multi-cloud environments. Join us if you want to grow in your engineering knowledge, tackle complex distributed systems challenges, and leave your mark on a rapidly growing company. The Role We are looking for a senior backend developer who enjoys building resilient, low-latency, and high-throughput systems at scale. Within our Pricing service team, you will design and implement the mission-critical core engines that ingest usage telemetry, evaluate dynamic pricing models, enforce feature entitlements, and power cost analytics dashboards for enterprise customers. The work you’ll do • Design and implement critical, high-performance microservices to process, aggregate, and reconcile usage telemetry at massive scale with exact-once processing semantics. • Evangelize best practices in distributed database usage, stream processing, and event-driven end-to-end architecture. • Set an example for, mentor, and grow your teammates across engineering initiatives. • Recognize and take action to improve system reliability, developer work environments, and CI/CD pipelines. • Write clean, understandable, fault-tolerant, and testable code for billing-critical systems. • Provide thoughtful feedback on technical designs, data schemas, and code reviews of peers. • Manage individual project priorities, architecture decision records (ADRs), deadlines, and deliverables. • Document development procedures, metering contracts, system concepts, and domain knowledge. • Build, launch, and maintain business-critical backend services in production across multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP). • Help define a fun, inclusive, and execution-driven engineering culture. The qualifications you need • BS in Computer Science or related technical field; Master's or Ph.D. preferred. • 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building enterprise-grade backend services. • Experienced in backend development using Java (Spring Boot framework expertise preferred). • Strong background in real-time stream processing, message queues, or event-driven systems (e.g., Apache Kafka, Flink). • Familiar with relational and non-relational database design (e.g., PostgreSQL, Redis) with a focus on data accuracy and idempotency. • Familiar with containerization and cloud orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure). • Preferred experience or strong interest in con