Senior Software Engineer, Kubernetes

Camunda is an enterprise platform for agentic orchestration, enabling organizations to coordinate AI agents, people, and systems across complex business processes. The Senior Software Engineer will develop and maintain Kubernetes Operators for Camunda 8 SaaS, supporting cloud platform reliability, customer cluster management, infrastructure automation, and multi-cloud deployments across GCP and AWS. The role also involves cross-functional collaboration, improving security and reliability, and participating in on-call and escalation support.

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

Requirements:

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