Senior Product Builder - Hub

remote work; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Camunda is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own the Camunda Hub backend and architecture, including fleet management, event design, and reliability across connected clusters. You will design, implement, and ship foundational changes, ensuring robust behavior in outages and upgrades.

Join a remote-first, globally distributed team and contribute to backend reviews, guidelines, and contract tests while ensuring secure, scalable multi-tenant operations across regions.

Qualifications

• Experience building and running production backend systems.
• Ability to turn ownershipless problems into design, plan and shipped code.
• Product-minded API design experience with clear communication for async reviews.
• Strong understanding of failure modes, reliability and on-call readiness.
• Shaped an API or platform as a product with cross-team alignment.

Responsibilities

• Own Hub's fleet propagation mechanism for access, secrets, tenants, licences, and custom roles across clusters.
• Write design documents for foundational changes and translate them into tested, shipped code.
• Design Hub behavior for failures, offline clusters, partial failures, and upgrades.
• Build the path from clusters back to Hub including deployment inventory, health, and audit records.
• Design Hub's first event and webhook mechanism for reactive admin and agent updates.
• Join the remote-first pod rotations and contribute to backend reviews, guidelines and contract tests.

Skills

Backend systems

Distributed systems

Multi-tenant SaaS

API design

Job description

About the role

Camunda is an enterprise platform for agentic orchestration, enabling coordination of AI agents, people, and systems across complex processes. This role owns the backend and architecture for Camunda Hub, including fleet management, event design, and reliability across connected clusters.

What you'll do

• Own Hub's fleet propagation mechanism for access, secrets, tenants, licences, and custom roles across clusters
• Write design documents for foundational changes and translate them into tested, shipped code
• Design Hub behavior for failures, offline clusters, partial failures, and upgrades
• Build the path from clusters back to Hub including deployment inventory, health, and audit records
• Design Hub's first event and webhook mechanism for reactive admin and agent updates
• Join the remote-first pod rotations and contribute to backend reviews, guidelines and contract tests

What they're looking for

• Experience building and running production backend systems relied on by teams or customers
• Ability to turn an ownershipless problem into design, plan and shipped code
• Product-minded API design experience with clear communication for async reviews
• Strong understanding of failure modes, reliability and on-call readiness
• Shaped an API or platform as a product with cross-team alignment
• Experience with distributed systems, multi-tenant SaaS, and design documentation

For applicants in Nigeria

• The listing states this is a remote role with worldwide eligibility; Nigeria is not excluded by region in the text
• Timezone expectations are not stated explicitly in the listing; confirm during interview
• Contractor vs employee status is not specified; confirm during interview
• Pay currency and salary range are listed for several regions, but the listing does not specify Nigeria-specific currency or range
• No visa or work-authorization notes are provided; confirm eligibility during interview