Senior Software Engineer, Kubernetes

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. Curious about the kind of challenges you'll work on at Camunda? Watch this quick 30-minute talk from our engineers to learn more about the new Camunda Exporter and how we're solving complex problems at scale

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.
• Apply deep technical expertise to determine where AI tools fit within platform engineering work, integrating them where they add real value
• 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:
• 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

Requirements

• 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.
• This role is an existing vacancy
• #LI-SK1 #LI-Remote #C1
• What We Have to Offer:

Benefits

Additional Information

Register here ! 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.

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