Remote Engineering Manager — AI-First Platform

Camunda; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 108,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote & Flexible

Annual kickoff

Health & wellbeing

Pension plan

Learning budget

Job summary

Camunda is remote-first and globally distributed, building a scalable CI/CD infrastructure platform used by 150+ engineers across 20+ teams. The Engineering Manager will guide a four-engineer remote team, driving zero-toil automation and AI-assisted operations to improve velocity and reliability.

The role demands senior technical depth, hands-on coding when needed (Python), and strong leadership to mentor engineers, set strategy, and steer cross-team roadmaps in a remote, async environment.

Qualifications

• Senior-level depth with cloud, Kubernetes, IaC and CI/CD
• Hands-on Python backend development
• Experience leading remote, async teams

Responsibilities

• Deliver and improve the infrastructure platform
• Drive AI-driven engineering, zero-touch infra
• Define CI/CD strategy to scale with less toil
• Mentor a 4-person platform team remotely

Skills

People leadership

Stakeholder leadership

Cloud providers

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD systems

Python backend

Architecture review

Remote async leadership

Tools

Terraform

ArgoCD

GitHub Actions

Self-hosted runners

Job description

Camunda is remote-first and globally distributed, building a scalable CI/CD infrastructure platform used by 150+ engineers across 20+ teams. The Engineering Manager will guide a four-engineer remote team, driving zero-toil automation and AI-assisted operations to improve velocity and reliability.

The role demands senior technical depth, hands-on coding when needed (Python), and strong leadership to mentor engineers, set strategy, and steer cross-team roadmaps in a remote, async environment.