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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, gpbullhound.com 2025 Great Place to Work certified. Visionary in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ page.camunda.com for Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies. ranked 3rd in Flexa's 2026 Most Flexible Companies flexa.careers, 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: Camunda is going through the AI-First transformation, and we are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Engineering Operations Team. As part of this high-impact platform team, you will play a key role in fostering engineering excellence by creating, implementing and maintaining scalable core processes to enhance development efficiency, reliability, and quality within the Camunda 8 code bases, as well as the Engineering-wide organization processes. As Camunda 8 evolves into the leader of the agentic orchestration market, your mission is to ensure our internal development lifecycle is just as autonomous and gets us there in a frictionless manner. You will work with infrastructure and core software engineering teams to ensure smooth workflows, robust dependency management, and continuous improvement of CI processes in the era of AI-first development; enabling the Camunda 8 engineering teams to focus better on the core product development. What you'll be doing: - AI-Augmented Engineering: Lead the shift toward an automated engineering lifecycle by implementing and orchestrating unified processes in the Camunda 8 repos - including AI-assisted processes like release management, autonomous dependency updates, and proactive CVE remediation. - Continuously optimize CI/release health and development velocity using a metric-driven approach to identify and eliminate bottlenecks in our AI-first workflows - Collaborate with the key stakeholders to implement the CI strategy and engineering best practices, by creating a positive impact within the Engineering organization. - Identify friction points in engineering workflows and evolve them into automated, self-sustaining systems that can handle the increased volume of an AI-augmented workforce - by effectively partnering with software engineers, engineering leaders and cross-team stakeholders What you bring: Must Haves: - Strong Software Engineering experience with a track record of delivering results (preferably, in Java) - Specialization: Fullstack or Backend - Passion for engineering operational excellence beyond writing code, including CI/CD optimization, dependency management, release process enhancements, metrics collection, and build efficiency (DevOps mindset), and track record of owning and developing engineering processes end-to-end - Strong experience in CI build tools (GitHub Actions, Java ecosystem - Maven, Docker) and automations (Shell/Python) in complex projects (e.g. monorepositories) - Being a strong collaborator across teams and delivering impactful solutions in a platform-like environment. - Experience in developer experience tools and process optimization & driving AI adoption You thrive in taking ownership of the codebase, as well as how you deploy and operate software. You are comfortable with the “you build it, you run it” mindset. Nice to Haves: - Experience designing efficient cross-team operations - Practical experience with Camunda or other BPMN systems This role is an existing vacancy #LI-AG1 #LI-Remote #C1 What We Have to Offer: Compensation We offer fair, transparent, and competitive compensation. For new hires, we typically place candidates in the first half of the range, allowing room for growth over time. Annual Total Cash (base salary + 100% variable, where applicable): - United States: $143,800.00 to $231,900.00 - United Kingdom: £90,300.00 to £148,500.00 - Singapore: S$178,600.00 to S$267,900.00 If you’re based elsewhere, you’ll be hired via Remote.com 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) docs.google.com. 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 camunda.com ”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! Come join us and be part of Camunda’s incredible journey: Make an impact at a pivotal moment in our story! Please be aware that scammers may impersonate Camunda by reaching out about job opportunities. Camunda will only contact candidates from an email address ending in @camunda.com camunda.com or @talent.camunda.com camunda.com. We will never ask candidates for bank account details, checks, payment, or other sensitive financial information as part of our hiring process. If you receive a suspicious message, please do not respond, click any links, or share personal information. Note for recruiting and placement agencies: Camunda does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our careers site, employees, or any other Camunda contact unless we have specifically engaged your firm for that search. Camunda will not pay fees related to unsolicited resumes. For information about how your personal data is processed, please refer to Camunda’s Applicant Privacy Policy legal.camunda.com. We note that phone numbers and SMS opt-in data are not shared, sold, or rented to third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. By opting in to SMS use, please be aware that: - Text message frequency may vary; - Standard text message and data rates may apply; and - By opting in, you will be enrolled directly in ongoing recruiting text messages from Camunda. To opt-out, simply select 'No' when prompted during your application. You can also change your preferences at any time by contacting talent-operations@camunda.com.

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Must-haves

Continuously optimize CI/release health and development velocity using a metric-driven approach to identify and eliminate bottlenecks in our AI-first workflows
Collaborate with the key stakeholders to implement the CI strategy and engineering best practices, by creating a positive impact within the Engineering organization.
Strong Software Engineering experience with a track record of delivering results (preferably, in Java)
Specialization: Fullstack or Backend
Strong experience in CI build tools (GitHub Actions, Java ecosystem - Maven, Docker) and automations (Shell/Python) in complex projects (e.g. monorepositories)
Being a strong collaborator across teams and delivering impactful solutions in a platform-like environment.
Experience in developer experience tools and process optimization & driving AI adoption
You thrive in taking ownership of the codebase, as well as how you deploy and operate software. You are comfortable with the “you build it, you run it” mindset.

Nice-to-haves

Experience designing efficient cross-team operations
Practical experience with Camunda or other BPMN systems
This role is an existing vacancy
#LI-AG1 #LI-Remote #C1

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