[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Kubernetes

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Camunda is an enterprise platform for agentic orchestration, enabling organizations to coordinate AI agents, people, and systems across complex business processes. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop and maintain Kubernetes Operators for their Camunda 8 SaaS offering, ensuring the reliability of their cloud platform and managing customer clusters across multi-cloud deployments.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

• 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
• Ability and/or willingness to use our product
• 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

Benefits

• Equity (where applicable) through our Virtual Stock Option Plan (VSOP)
• 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 020;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 $/020;/34;1,000 per year for self-driven learning: courses, certifications, books, you decide!

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