Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Camunda; United States; Remote; CAD 181,000 - 292,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote & Flexible

Annual Kickoff

Health & Wellbeing

Live Well Spending Account (LSA)

Equity: VSOP

Job summary

Camunda is hiring for a Forward Deployed Engineer to own the full deployment journey from first process file to a working, improving system. You’ll work across Java services and React interfaces with a global team to scale performance and reliability in real production environments.

You will build product features and agents while guiding customers through initial deployments and ongoing improvements. This role is remote, global, and involves occasional travel and deep technical collaboration.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping software inside a large organization with governance and resilience in scale.
• Ability to debug integrations, deploy clusters, and explain generated BPMN to engineers and business leads.
• Proven track record working with AI-enabled workflows and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end deployment journey from first process file to production, measurable improvements.
• Ensure at least one workflow is running within 90 days with demonstrable fitness gains for the customer.
• Achieve 3–5 viable customer deployments within 12 months.
• Contribute to product by building features, agents, and skill files; fix bugs as needed.
• Drive adoption across technical and business stakeholders to create lasting customer capability.
• Configure Camunda clusters, debug integration failures, and build custom agents where defaults don’t fit.
• Document best practices and create faster deployment playbooks.
• Hand off trained, independent customer teams ready to act on improvements.

Skills

Enterprise production

Technical depth

Stakeholder communication

Practical AI experience

Ambiguity tolerance

Travel willingness

Product adoption

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:

ProcessOS is a new kind of Camunda product: business processes described in natural language, generated as executable BPMN workflows, and improved autonomously from production data. We’re hiring the first cohort of Forward Deployed Engineers to bring it into production at enterprise customers. You’ll own the deployment journey from first process file to a working, improving system, and hand off a functioning capability to the customer’s team. The code you write and the patterns you discover feed directly back into how ProcessOS is built. This is a rare opportunity to shape a product, a function, and a field practice from day one.

You’ll work end‑to‑end across Java services and React interfaces, collaborating closely with a talented global team to measure, improve, and scale performance and fault tolerance in real-world distributed systems.

Curious about the kind of challenges you'll work on at Camunda? Watch this quick 30-minute talk from our engineers to learn more about the new Camunda Exporter and how we’re solving complex problems at scale

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Deploy and prove: own the end-to-end journey from first process file to a running, measurably improving production workflow.
• At 90 days: at least one workflow running, the improvement loop active, and measurable fitness gains the customer can see.
• At 12 months: 3–5 customers with viable deployments.
• Feed the product: You're building the product as you work with customers; this includes features, agents, and skill files. When you find a bug, you're empowered to fix it.
• Drive organisational adoption: work across technical and business stakeholders to turn early deployments into lasting customer capability
• Work at technical depth: configure Camunda clusters, debug integration failures, and build custom agents where platform defaults don’t fit
• Build the playbook: document what good looks like as you discover it and make the next deployment faster
• Hand off deliberately: leave each customer team trained, independent, and able to act on improvement results without you

What You Bring:

• Enterprise production experience: you’ve shipped something inside a large organisation and stayed to see it operate. You know why governance and resilience matter at scale.
• Technical depth: you can debug an integration failure, write a custom agent against a legacy API, stand up a Camunda cluster from scratch, and explain generated BPMN to both engineers and business leads.
• Stakeholder communication: you work effectively across engineering, architecture, and business leadership and adapt how you communicate without losing precision.
• Practical AI experience: you’ve used AI to solve real problems in production – not just experimented. You understand context management, prompt engineering, agent testing, and integration tradeoffs.
• Comfort with ambiguity: you make sound judgment calls without a playbook and document what you learn.
• Occasional travel may be required
• Ability and/or willingness to use our product

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience in a customer-facing engineering or professional services role.
• Familiarity with regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, or insurance
• Production experience with agentic systems or AI-integrated workflows.
• Contributions to a shared platform or open source project that others built on.

This role is a new vacancy

What We Have to Offer:

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) shown below spans from the minimum in a Standard market to the maximum in a Major market. 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: $131,100 to $211,400
• Singapore: S$162,800 to S$244,200

If you’re based elsewhere, you’ll be hired via Remote.com (our global employer partner), and your Talent Acquisition Partner will provide a personalized Total Rewards Calculator after your first interview.

Equity: We also offer equity (where applicable) through our Virtual Stock Option Plan (VSOP).

We invest in your wellbeing, growth, and ability to connect, along with perks that support you no matter where you’re based. Our benefits are globally designed and locally delivered where applicable.

• 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 (Vienna in 2025, Madrid in 2026!), 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, 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!

AI in our hiring process

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

“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. We are looking forward to your application!