Senior Product Builder - Hub

The role

You will own the backend and architecture for Camunda Hub to manage a fleet of clusters. You will build mechanisms for access, secret, tenant, and licence changes, and shape the platform's event model and service boundaries.

What you will do

• Take over Hub's fleet propagation mechanism for access, secrets, tenants, licences and custom roles
• Write short design documents for foundational changes
• Turn design reviews into tested, shipped code
• Design Hub behavior for offline clusters, partial failures, outages, and cluster adoption or detachment
• Build the path from clusters back to Hub for deployment inventory, health, audit records and licence status
• Design Hub's first event and webhook mechanism
• Join the pod's rotations and Hub on-call
• Help other builders through reviews, guidelines and contract tests

Required qualifications

• Experience building and running backend systems in production that other teams or customers depend on
• Comfort taking a problem nobody owns yet and turning it into a design, a plan and shipped code
• Product judgment for technical users
• Clear, short writing for asynchronous remote team review
• Care for how a system behaves when parts of it fail
• Designed and shipped a control plane or similar system that pushes desired state to many targets
• Knowledge of outbox or event-log patterns, idempotent apply, versioning, retries and drift reconciliation
• Senior backend engineering in Java (API design, relational data models, multi-tenant SaaS services)
• Hands-on Helm and Kubernetes for self-managed installations
• Software architecture and failure analysis expertise
• Experience debugging production incidents in a distributed system
• Ability to shape an API or platform as a product and get agreement across teams without formal authority

Nice to have

• Kubernetes operators or GitOps tools, for example Argo CD
• OIDC, SCIM and permission models, or secret managers and licence systems
• Camunda 8 or another workflow or orchestration engine
• Enough frontend skill to build a thin UI on top of a backend capability

Benefits

• Remote & Flexible work from anywhere
• Home office budget
• Co-working space support
• Flexible time off
• Annual Kickoff and team offsites
• Camundi Connection Budgets for meetups and local gatherings
• Locally tailored healthcare
• Modern Health for global mental wellbeing
• Live Well Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA)
• Retirement and pension plans
• Life and disability insurance
• Up to $/€/£1,000 per year for self-driven learning

About the company

Camunda is the enterprise platform for agentic orchestration, enabling organizations to coordinate AI agents, people, and systems. It is a remote-first organization transforming into an AI-first organization.