Camunda is hiring a Senior Product Builder to own the backend and architecture of Camunda Hub, its platform for managing fleets of clusters, tenants, and permissions.

Responsibilities:

  • Build and improve the mechanism that propagates access, secrets, tenants, licences, and custom roles to connected clusters.
  • Design Hub’s event model, service boundaries, and data model, and build the path for deployment inventory, health, audit records, and licence status to flow back from clusters.
  • Design for offline clusters, partial failures, outages, upgrades, and cluster adoption or detachment.
  • Build event and webhook capabilities, contribute to on-call rotations, and support other engineers through reviews, guidelines, and contract tests.

Requirements:

  • Experience building and operating production backend systems that other teams or customers depend on.
  • Designed and shipped a control plane or similar system that propagates desired state to many targets; knowledge of outbox or event-log patterns, idempotency, versioning, retries, and drift reconciliation.
  • Senior backend engineering experience in Java, including API design, relational data models, and multi-tenant SaaS services; hands-on Helm and Kubernetes experience.
  • Strong software architecture and failure analysis skills, including experience debugging production incidents in distributed systems and readiness for on-call.
  • Ability to shape APIs or platforms as products, write design documents, and build agreement across teams.
  • Experience building AI-first from written specifications and carefully checking AI-generated output.

Nice to have: Kubernetes operators or GitOps tools such as Argo CD; OIDC, SCIM, permission models, secret managers, or licence systems; Camunda 8 or another workflow or orchestration engine; frontend skills.

Conditions and benefits: Fully remote and global, with flexible time off, a home office budget, coworking support, equity where applicable, locally tailored healthcare, wellbeing benefits, retirement and insurance plans where relevant, and up to $/€/£1,000 per year for learning. Annual total target cash ranges by location: United States $143,800–$231,900; United Kingdom £90,300–£148,500; Singapore S$178,600–S$267,900; Canada C$152,700–C$251,200. Compensation depends on skills, experience, and location.