About the role
We're hiring for Self-Managed Experience (SMX) — the team responsible for making Camunda 8 deployable in a self-service way for customers who run their own infrastructure. SMX covers two areas of work: installation artifacts (Helm chart, Docker Compose, C8Run) and reference architectures & cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure).
This role sits primarily on the installation artifacts side — building, maintaining, and releasing the artifacts that ship Camunda 8 to every self-managed customer. You'll be fully embedded in that area day-to-day, but you'll work alongside the reference-architecture side of the team regularly, and SMX is actively working toward enabling every engineer to review and contribute across both stacks over time.
SMX is also shifting from a purely artifact- and ops-focused team toward one in which engineers bring customer judgment and product sense alongside technical depth. That means engaging directly with the teams closest to customers — Support, Consulting, Presales — and using that signal to help shape what we prioritize, not just executing a fully-specced ticket.
You'll find plenty of room to leave your own footprint: deployment automation, software and infrastructure testing, multi-region setups, and developer experience are all live areas of investment as the team matures from "basic install" toward full-lifecycle ownership (upgrades, backup/restore, disaster recovery).
What You’ll Be Doing
- Build, maintain, and release C8 distribution artifacts for self-managed customers — Helm Charts (Kubernetes), C8Run, and Docker Compose — along with their documentation.
- Improve the reliability and usability of deployment artifacts across the full customer lifecycle: installation, upgrades, and day-2 operations, not just initial deployment.
- Engage directly with internal customer-facing teams (Support, Consulting, Presales) to understand real deployment problems, and use that signal to help shape what gets prioritized — not just how it gets built. Collaborate with Development Teams, Product Management, QA, and Documentation to ship integrated, tested, and documented releases.
- Take part in the team's shared medic rotation and resolve engineering-level support cases, feeding learnings back into development.
- Contribute to the shared tooling (review, deployment, and test tooling) that SMX is building so other Camunda teams can adopt it — this is one of the team's current investment areas.
Compensation
We offer competitive, fair, and transparent compensation. Salary ranges are location-based, with Standard and Major markets (global tech hubs) reflecting local competition.
The Annual Total Target Cash (base salary + 100% variable target, where applicable) shown below spans from the minimum in a Standard market to the maximum in a Major market. Final offers depend on skills, experience, and location, and we typically hire in the first half of the range to allow room for growth:
- United States: $119,900.00 to $193,200.00
- United Kingdom: £75,300.00 to £123,800.00
- Singapore: S$148,900.00 to S$223,300.00
- Canada: C$127,300.00 to C$209,300.00
If you’re based elsewhere, you’ll be hired via Remote.com, and your Talent Acquisition Partner will provide a personalized Total Rewards Calculator after your first interview.
Equity: We also offer equity (where applicable) through our Virtual Stock Option Plan (VSOP).
Benefits & Perks
- 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, 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. The Live Well program launches in 2026 and scales to €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 $/€/£1,000 per year for self-driven learning: courses, certifications, books, you decide!
- Ability and/or willingness to use our product, paired with prior experience in software engineering and product management. Comfortable understanding the customer problem behind a ticket, shaping priorities from customer and operational feedback, and asking both “should we build this?” and “how should we build it?
- Strong expertise in building, operating, and maintaining Helm Charts; deploying applications on Kubernetes; implementing CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions; and managing infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform).
- Ability to create clear technical documentation and communicate effectively across teams.
- A pragmatic and autonomous approach to programming and problem-solving.
- You thrive as a manager of one — you build it, you own it — and take pride in delivering maintainable, operable software.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience running and operating on-prem/self-hosted software on Docker.
- Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or similar observability tools.
- Working knowledge of the Go programming language.
- Exposure to cloud infrastructure/IaC (Terraform, Crossplane) — useful as SMX moves toward shared review capability across installation artifacts and reference architectures.
