Engineering Manager - Infrastructure

Camunda; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Camunda is seeking a Senior Infrastructure/Platform Lead to scale our CI/CD infrastructure across 150+ engineers and 20+ teams. You’ll drive a zero-touch, AI-assisted platform, reduce manual toil, and align quality with rapid product velocity.

Lead a four-person platform team, mentor engineers, and foster an async, remote culture focused on autonomy and continuous improvement. This role is fully remote, offers global collaboration, and high-impact ownership.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading platform or infrastructure teams.
• Strong CI/CD and automation expertise.
• Ability to drive AI-assisted engineering initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Ensure continuous delivery and improvement of the infrastructure platform.
• Guide the team through reduction of manual work using AI-driven approaches.
• Define and execute the strategy to scale CI/CD and artifact distribution systems.
• Grow and mentor a high-leverage platform team in a remote environment.

Skills

People leadership

AI-driven engineering

CI/CD

Platform scaling

Job description

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.

Named GP Bullhound's Top 100 Next Unicorn list, 2025 Great Place to Work certified. Visionary in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies. ranked 3rd in Flexa's 2026 Most Flexible Companies, We're growing fast and looking for top talent to join our team. If you want meaningful work, visible impact and put something genuinely rare on your CV, keep reading.

About the Role

At Camunda, our CI/CD infrastructure platform is treated as an internal product. Our mission is to build a platform that offers a Golden Path, enabling 150+ engineers across 20+ teams to deliver with world-class velocity and uncompromising quality at scale, that will allow Camunda engineers to focus on building the agentic technologies that will define our market leadership.

We are approaching a pivotal phase: an upcoming quality surge that will significantly increase testing volume and engineering throughput. Our platform must scale seamlessly, without increasing developer toil.

What you'll be doing

• Ensure we continuously deliver and improve our infrastructure platform
• Guide the team through massive reduction of manual work through employing an AI-driven engineering approach. You will reach a zero-touch scalable infrastructure, where AI handles dependency management, assists with incident resolution, cloud cost optimization, and developer support - ensuring the team can handle increasing scope and scale without having to grow in size.
• Quality surge: You will prepare, define and ensure execution of the strategy for our CI/CD and artifact distribution systems to scale without increasing engineering toil
• Grow, mentor and coach a high-leverage platform team of 4 Infrastructure engineers, by setting clear expectations, giving actionable and timely feedback, and fostering a culture of empathy, autonomy, and continuous improvement, in an asynchronous, remote environment.

What you bring

• Ability and/or willingness to use our product.
• People leadership