Engineering Manager - Infrastructure

Camunda; United States; Remote; GBP 108,400 - 178,300; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote & Flexible work arrangements

Health & Wellbeing support

Professional growth budget

Job summary

Camunda is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a remote team in enhancing our CI/CD infrastructure platform. This role emphasizes reducing manual tasks through AI-driven methods and ensuring seamless scalability for engineering efforts.

The ideal candidate has a strong background in backend engineering, leadership experience, and can drive technical strategies effectively across teams. Join us to empower 150+ engineers in delivering top-tier solutions.

Qualifications

• Ability and/or willingness to use our product.
• Track record of growing engineers to senior and beyond senior levels.
• Ability to translate tech needs into actionable engineering roadmap and strategy.

Responsibilities

• Ensure continuous delivery and improvement of the infrastructure platform.
• Guide the team towards zero-touch scalable infrastructure.
• Prepare and execute the strategy for CI/CD and artifact distribution systems.

Skills

People leadership experience

Stakeholder leadership

Senior-level technical depth

Backend engineering background

Experience with cloud providers

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD systems experience

Tools

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub Actions

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 10 US banks, Camunda helps enterprises boost operational efficiency, accelerate time‑to‑value, and deliver better customer experiences. Fully remote and global, we are transitioning into an AI‑first organization 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 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, so Camunda engineers can 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. We are looking for an Engineering Manager who acts as a servant‑leader. You will guide a high‑leverage remote team of four infrastructure engineers and drive the evolution toward a scalable zero‑toil platform. At the organizational level, you will ensure that the right way is the easy way, serving as an advocate for the engineers who rely on the platform every day.

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 four 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 experience: track record of growing engineers to senior and beyond senior levels.
• Strong stakeholder leadership: Ability to translate tech needs into actionable engineering roadmap and strategy, and implement that across teams.
• Senior‑level technical depth and competency: Hands‑on experience with:
  • Cloud providers (e.g., GCP, AWS or similar)
  • Kubernetes (any distribution)
  • Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, ArgoCD or similar)
  • Scaling high‑load CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions with self‑hosted runners or similar).
• Backend engineering background, fluent in at least one programming language (e.g., Python)
• Comfortable at reviewing complex architecture and code; eager to contribute hands‑on when needed (e.g., to implement internal workflow automations)
• Proven track record of ensuring team efficiency within remote, async‑first environments.

Nice‑to‑haves

• Experience transforming teams into AI‑native and/or automation‑first teams.
• Background in technical product management or strong product thinking.
• Experience implementing FinOps practices and accountability.

Compensation

We offer competitive, fair, and transparent compensation. Salary ranges are location based, with Standard and Major markets (global tech hubs) reflecting local competition. 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: $172,600.00 to $278,300.00
• Canada: C$183,300.00 to C$301,500.00
• United Kingdom: £108,400.00 to £178,300.00
• Singapore: S$214,400.00 to S$321,500.00

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: Invest in meaningful face time through our Annual Kickoff, team offsites, and 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, from staying active to caring for family, exploring personal passions, meaningful experiences, and investing in your financial wellbeing. 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!

Equal Opportunity & Inclusive Hiring

Everyone is welcome at Camunda — it’s a celebrated component of our culture. We strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our people. At Camunda, we honour diverse cultures and backgrounds and are proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to gender, race, ethnicity, religion, belief, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other protected characteristics under applicable law.

AI in Hiring Process

Camunda may use AI tools to aid the screening of applications and during the interview process. You can learn more here.