Senior Software Engineer - AI-Driven Engineering Ops - Remote

Camunda; United States; Remote; USD 144,000 - 232,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work in any location

Annual kickoff travel & team offsites

Health & wellbeing programs

Professional growth stipend

Job summary

Camunda is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Engineering Operations Team. You will help build scalable core processes to improve CI, release management, and dependency updates across Camunda 8.

This fully remote, globally distributed role collaborates with infrastructure and core software engineers to optimize workflows and automate friction points in the AI-first era. A strong ownership mindset and experience with Java and CI/CD tooling are highly valued.

Qualifications

• Strong Software Engineering experience with a track record of delivering results (preferably in Java).
• Passion for engineering operational excellence beyond code, including CI/CD optimization, dependency management, release process enhancements, metrics collection, and build efficiency.
• Strong experience in CI build tools (GitHub Actions, Java ecosystem - Maven, Docker) and automations (Shell/Python) in complex projects (e.g. monorepositories).
• Being a strong collaborator across teams and delivering impactful solutions in a platform-like environment.
• Experience in developer experience tools and process optimization & driving AI adoption.

Responsibilities

• AI-Augmented Engineering: Lead the shift toward an automated engineering lifecycle by implementing and orchestrating unified processes in the Camunda 8 repos - including AI-assisted processes like release management, autonomous dependency updates, and proactive CVE remediation.
• Continuously optimize CI/release health and development velocity using a metric-driven approach to identify and eliminate bottlenecks in our AI-first workflows
• Collaborate with the key stakeholders to implement the CI strategy and engineering best practices, by creating a positive impact within the Engineering organization.
• Identify friction points in engineering workflows and evolve them into automated, self-sustaining systems that can handle the increased volume of an AI-augmented workforce - by effectively partnering with software engineers, engineering leaders and cross-team stakeholders

Skills

Software Engineering

Java

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Collaboration

Tools

Maven

Docker

Shell

Python

GitHub Actions

Job description

Camunda is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Engineering Operations Team. You will help build scalable core processes to improve CI, release management, and dependency updates across Camunda 8.

This fully remote, globally distributed role collaborates with infrastructure and core software engineers to optimize workflows and automate friction points in the AI-first era. A strong ownership mindset and experience with Java and CI/CD tooling are highly valued.