Senior Product Builder - Hub

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 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

Camunda Hub is where enterprises run Camunda at scale. From Hub they manage their clusters and tenants, decide who can do what, and roll changes out across the whole organization. We’re looking for a Senior Product Builder to own the backend and architecture that let Hub manage a whole fleet of clusters. Your first focus will be the mechanism that sends access, secret, tenant and licence changes out to every connected cluster and brings deployments, health and audit records back. From there, you’ll shape Hub’s foundations: its event model, the service boundaries and data model other teams build on, and how Hub behaves when things fail or get upgraded. The platform is your product. Your users are platform administrators, Centres of Excellence and the builders across Camunda who depend on what you create. You’ll join a new two-person pod in our remote-first team. You’ll have real ownership as the person who makes the call, and you’ll build AI-first, from written specs through to production. Our customers run mission-critical processes on Camunda, so your work will matter to them every day.

What You Will Do

• Take over Hub's fleet propagation mechanism from the team building its first version, and make it work for access, secrets, tenants, licences and custom roles
• Write short design documents for foundational changes, get them reviewed by the teams that depend on them, and turn them into tested, shipped code
• Design how Hub behaves when things go wrong: offline clusters, partial failures, Hub outages, and clusters being adopted or detached
• Build the path from clusters back to Hub, starting with deployment inventory, health, audit records and licence status
• Design Hub's first event and webhook mechanism, so admins and agents can react to changes instead of polling for them
• Join the pod's rotations and Hub on-call, and help other builders take on backend work through reviews, guidelines and contract tests

What You Will Bring To The Role

• Experience building and running backend systems in production that other teams or customers depend on
• Comfort taking a problem nobody owns yet and turning it into a design, a plan and shipped code
• Product judgment for technical users: you talk to the people who use your APIs and make trade-offs on their behalf
• Clear, short writing that lets a remote team review and decide asynchronously
• Care for how a system behaves when parts of it fail, not only for the happy path

Must Haves

• Designed and shipped a control plane or similar system that pushes desired state to many targets. Knows outbox or event-log patterns, idempotent apply, versioning, retries and drift reconciliation
• Senior backend engineering in Java (API design, relational data models, multi-tenant SaaS services) and hands-on Helm and Kubernetes for self-managed installations
• Software architecture and failure analysis: partial failure, blast radius, consistency trade-offs. Has debugged production incidents in a distributed system and is ready for on-call
• Has shaped an API or platform as a product, and writes design docs other teams can build on. Gets agreement across teams without formal authority
• Builds AI-first from written specifications and checks AI output as carefully as any other code

Nice To Haves

• Kubernetes operators or GitOps tools, for example Argo CD
• OIDC, SCIM and permission models, or secret managers and licence systems
• Camunda 8 or another workflow or orchestration engine
• Enough frontend skill to build a thin UI on top of a backend capability

This role is an existing vacancy

Compensation

What We Have to Offer: 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: $143,800.00 to $231,900.00
• United Kingdom: £90,300.00 to £148,500.00
• Singapore: S$178,600.00 to S$267,900.00
• Canada: C$152,700.00 to C$251,200

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).

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: 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!

For information about how your personal data is processed, please refer to Camunda’s Applicant Privacy Policy. We note that phone numbers and SMS opt-in data are not shared, sold, or rented to third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes.

By opting in to SMS use, please be aware that:

• Text message frequency may vary;
• Standard text message and data rates may apply; and
• By opting in, you will be enrolled directly in ongoing recruiting text messages from Camunda.

To opt-out, simply select 'No' when prompted during your application. You can also change your preferences at any time by contacting [e-mail].