Senior Backend Engineer - Engineering Operations
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Camunda is the leader in enterprise agentic automation, orchestrating complex business processes, including high-value knowledge work, across agents, people, and systems. By creating production-ready, enterprise-grade agents with built-in governance, Camunda uniquely delivers trusted AI agents for business-critical processes. Over 700 leading innovators like Atlassian, ING, and Vodafone, rely on Camunda to slash time-to-value from months to days, boost operational efficiency, and elevate customer experiences. Camunda was named a Visionary in the inaugural 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (BOAT).
As a fully remote, global company, we’re rewriting the rules of modern business. Named GP Bullhound’s 2024 Top 100 Next Unicorn list, certified as a Great Place to Work, and recognized by Flexa for true flexibility, we’re growing fast and looking for top talent to join our team. If you’re excited to do meaningful work and make real impact, keep reading, this role could be the one you’ve been waiting for.
About the role:
We are looking for a Senior 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 organization processes.
You will collaborate with infrastructure and core software engineering teams to ensure smooth workflows, robust dependency management, and continuous improvement of CI processes; enabling the Camunda 8 engineering teams to focus better on the core product development.
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What You’ll Be Doing:
Implement, automate and maintain core unified engineering processes in the Camunda 8 repos, including: release management and workflows, dependency management, CVE management, by significantly improving developer experience
Continuously improve the CI/release health following a metric-driven approach
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 in engineering operations workflows, and take it to next level by automating and orchestrating it, ensuring scalability - by effectively partnering with software engineers, engineering leaders and cross-team stakeholders
What You Bring:
Ability and/or willingness to use our product
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-
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