Senior Software Engineer, Kubernetes

Camunda is the enterprise platform for agentic orchestration , enabling organizations to coordinate AI agents, people, and systems across complex, end-to-end business processes. With built-in governance, auditability, and human oversight, Camunda gives enterprises the control they need to move AI from pilots to production - safely and at scale. Trusted by over 700 organizations worldwide , including 9 of top 10 US banks, Camunda helps enterprises boost operational efficiency, accelerate time-to-value, and deliver better customer experiences.

Fully remote and global, we are in the middle of something bigger: transforming into an AI-first organisation, built on our own platform . We use Agentic AI to automate, orchestrate intelligent processes, and elevate human contribution across every team.

Named GP Bullhound’s Top 100 Next Unicorn list, 2025 Great Place to Work certified. Visionary in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies ranked 3rd in Flexa's 2026 Most Flexible Companies , We’re growing fast and looking for top talent to join our team. If you want meaningful work, visible impact and put something genuinely rare on your CV, keep reading.

About The Role

We’re seeking a talented engineer to develop and maintain Kubernetes Operators for our Camunda 8 SaaS offering. You’ll play a vital role in ensuring the reliability of our cloud platform, managing numerous customer clusters and tackling complex challenges related to Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, and multi-cloud deployments across GCP and AWS. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact on our software and processes.

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What You’ll Be Doing

• Design, develop, and maintain Kubernetes Operators to manage the Camunda SaaS offering. Your work will directly contribute to helping Camunda deliver a robust platform with world-class reliability used by customers globally across all industries.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product, engineering, field) to define, ship, and iterate on features. You will work with high calibre teams on projects that will extend Camunda’s SaaS across clouds, enable multi-region deployments, and deliver world-class security features used by some of the largest enterprises world-wide.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve existing codebase(s) for security, stability, and reliability. You will be part of a team that cares deeply about quality and reliability and make contributions that extend our reliability objectives.
• Be an advocate for new ideas and help build a team environment that values both creativity and practicality. Your work will have impact across Camunda’s engineering organization, directly influencing outcomes, and enable a world-class SaaS experience.
• Participate in an on-call rotation and 3rd level escalation support to ensure the system is meeting its objectives.

What You Bring

• Ability and/or willingness to use our product
• Experience using Go or another relevant language for cloud native software development.
• Practical experience with at least one major Cloud Service Provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and a deep understanding of its core concepts.
• Willingness to work collaboratively within a team, share knowledge, and contribute to a positive engineering culture.
• A pragmatic and autonomous approach to programming and problem solving
• A "you build it, you run it" mentality, coupled with a deep passion for automation and raising the quality bar.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience writing and maintaining Kubernetes Operators ideally with Controller‑Runtime & Kubebuilder.
• Familiarity with infrastructure topics such as multi-region or multi-cloud provider setups, ideally with Crossplane.

Compensation

What We Have to Offer:

We offer competitive, fair, and transparent compensation. Salary ranges are location-based, with Standard and Major markets (global tech hubs) reflecting local competition.

The Annual Total Target Cash (base salary + 100% variable target, where applicable) shown below spans from the minimum in a Standard market to the maximum in a Major market. Final offers depend on skills , experience , and location , and we typically hire in the first half of the range to allow room for growth:

United States: $149,800.00 to $241,500.00

United Kingdom: £94,100.00 to £154,700.00

Singapore: S$186,100.00 to S$279,100.00

Canada: C$159,100.00 to C$261,600.00

If you’re based elsewhere, you’ll be hired via Remote.com (our global employer partner), and your Talent Acquisition Partner will provide a personalized Total Rewards Calculator after your first interview.

Equity: We also offer equity (where applicable) through our Virtual Stock Option Plan (VSOP) .

Benefits & Perks

We invest in your wellbeing, growth, and ability to connect, along with perks that support you no matter where you’re based. Our benefits are globally designed and locally delivered where applicable.

• Remote & Flexible: Work from anywhere with the setup that suits you, home office budget, co‑working space support, and flexible time off to recharge when you need it.
• In Person Connection: We invest in meaningful face time through our Annual Kickoff (Vienna in 2025, Madrid in 2026), team offsites, and Camundi Connection Budgets, including contributing to meetups while travelling, and local gatherings with fellow Camundi.
• Health & Wellbeing: Access locally tailored healthcare, Modern Health for global mental wellbeing, and our Live Well Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA), a flexible, global benefit that puts you in control of your whole life, not just work, from: staying active, to caring for family, exploring personal passions, meaningful experiences, and investing in your financial wellbeing. The Live Well program launches in 2026 and scales to €1,000 annually from 2027.
• Financial Security: Retirement and pension plans (often with company contributions), plus life and disability insurance where relevant.
• Professional Growth: Up to $/€/£1,000 per year for self‑driven learning: courses, certifications, books, you decide!

AI in our hiring process

Camunda may use AI tools to aid the screening of applications and during the interview process. You can learn more here.

"Everyone is welcome at Camunda" — it’s a celebrated component of our culture. We strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our people. At Camunda, we honour diverse cultures and backgrounds and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to gender, race, ethnicity, religion, belief, sexual orientation, age, disability or any other protected characteristics under applicable law. We are looking forward to your application!