Senior Platform Builder (Backend/AI-First, Remote)

Camunda; Johannesburg; Remote; ZAR 2,397,000 - 3,866,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work flexibility

Global teams

Health & wellbeing program

Professional growth budget

Job summary

Camunda is hiring a Senior Product Builder for the Hub backend, owning the architecture that manages a fleet of clusters. You will shape event models, service boundaries and data models used by Camunda teams, building AI-first capabilities from specs to production.

The role emphasizes ownership and remote-first teamwork with platform administrators and builders across Camunda. You will join a two-person pod, responsible for end-to-end backend work, including ensuring reliability and scalability

Qualifications

• Designed and shipped a control plane or similar system that drives desired state to many targets.
• Senior backend engineering in Java with API design and multi-tenant SaaS services.
• Experience with Helm and Kubernetes for self-managed installations.
• Architecture and failure analysis: partial failure, blast radius, consistency trade-offs; on-call readiness.
• Shaped an API or platform as a product; coordinates across teams without formal authority.
• Builds AI-first from written specs and validates AI output like code.

Responsibilities

• Take over Hub's fleet propagation mechanism and extend it to access, secrets, tenants, licences and custom roles.
• Write design docs for foundational changes, get reviews, and turn them into shipped code.
• Design failure handling: offline clusters, partial failures, hub outages, adoption/detachment of clusters.
• Build traceability: deployment inventory, health, audit records, licence status.
• Design Hub's first event/webhook mechanism for reactive admin/agent workflows.
• Participate in rotations and on-call, mentoring peers through reviews and tests.

Skills

Backend engineering

Java API design

Kubernetes

Multi-tenant SaaS

System architecture

On-call readiness

Technical writing

API design

Tools

Helm

Argo CD

Job description

Camunda is hiring a Senior Product Builder for the Hub backend, owning the architecture that manages a fleet of clusters. You will shape event models, service boundaries and data models used by Camunda teams, building AI-first capabilities from specs to production.

The role emphasizes ownership and remote-first teamwork with platform administrators and builders across Camunda. You will join a two-person pod, responsible for end-to-end backend work, including ensuring reliability and scalability