Engineering Manager, Process Intelligence

The Team:
Celonis is one of the world’s most exciting companies ($13B valuation, 3k employees). oin a tight-knit team of 9 engineers building full-stack capabilities that help customers define, govern, and reuse business concepts - so they can write accurate queries, trust the results, and scale insights across teams.

Because Knowledge sits at the center of the Celonis platform, you’ll tackle a wide range of technical challenges and partner closely with backend engineers, Product, and UX to deliver polished, high-impact experiences. If you enjoy turning complex data problems into intuitive workflows, you’ll help shape how users explore “big data” and bring the next generation of Celonis to customers worldwide.

Join us to grow your engineering leadership and leave a visible mark on a fast-moving, scaling organization.

The Role:
As an Engineering Manager, you’re responsible for delivering robust full stack applications and libraries. You will be at the frontier of user-facing development, pushing the boundaries of product, UX, and engineering to enhance the Process Intelligence Graph with the next generation of process mining.

Customers come to Celonis with messy, complex data and need a clear way to categorize it, simplify it, and turn it into actionable insights. We are building the next generation of process insights with object-centric process mining to help them save time and money.

You’ll build systems that scale across large datasets and demanding enterprise use cases. Our stack includes Angular, TypeScript, Java Spring Boot, Postgres, StarRocks and more - focused on extensibility, performance, reliability, and craft.

The work you ship will directly influence how organizations around the world operate, including initiatives like measuring and reducing carbon footprint to support sustainability goals.

The work you’ll do:

• Lead the Knowledge full stack teams in Los Angeles & 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