About Camunda
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.
About the Role
Camunda is hiring a Senior Manager, QA Engineering to lead the end-to-end QA strategy for Camunda 8 — elevating quality governance with rigorous quality gates, outcome-driven automation, and strategic reporting that guides roadmap and release decisions. They will manage two teams (functional and reliability) comprising 12 ICs, a principal engineer, and a manager; evolve the structure for scale; and ensure comprehensive coverage across business users, developers, and admins/operators in Kubernetes, cloud, and bare-metal environments. This first-of-its-kind role reports directly to the VP of Engineering.
What you'll be doing
- Own and drive the end-to-end QA strategy for Camunda 8, establishing quality gates and cross-team accountability.
- Partner with principal engineering to mature reliability, performance, and resilience testing.
- Guide automation strategy and QA processes to enable teams to deliver high-quality outcomes efficiently.
- Develop actionable quality metrics, dashboards, and reports that inform leadership and roadmap decisions.
- Lead and scale QA teams — managers, principal engineers, and ICs — evolving structure for maximum impact.
- Influence cross-functional stakeholders (engineering, product, UX, documentation, field) to embed quality across the organization.
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) spans from the minimum in a Standard market to the maximum in a Major market. We also offer equity 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!
What you bring
- Ability and/or willingness to use our product.
- Proven track record leading QA in engineering organizations of 100–500 people, with measurable impact.
- Ability to define and implement end-to-end QA strategy, quality gates, and data-informed decision-making across multiple teams.
- Comfort staying connected to hands-on QA execution while leading strategically.
- Experience leveling up QA for complex technical products, including developer/admin persona coverage and high-load, performance, resilience testing.
- Skill aligning engineering, product, UX, documentation, and field teams around shared quality goals.
- Enterprise software / workflow automation background.
Nice-to-haves
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes, cloud, microservices, and related operational challenges.
- Hands-on experience with Playwright, TestRail, or CI/CD-integrated testing environments.
- Chaos engineering or advanced reliability/performance benchmarking experience.
- Proven ability to drive cultural change in QA.
