[Remote] Engineering Manager - Infrastructure

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Camunda is an enterprise platform for agentic orchestration that helps organizations coordinate AI agents, people, and systems across complex business processes. The Engineering Manager will lead a remote infrastructure team and evolve Camunda’s CI/CD infrastructure platform into a scalable, zero-toil internal product. The role focuses on AI-driven automation, CI/CD scalability, stakeholder leadership, and mentoring infrastructure engineers.

Responsibilities

• Ensure we continuously deliver and improve our infrastructure platform
• Guide the team through massive reduction of manual work through employing an AI-driven engineering approach. You will reach a zero-touch scalable infrastructure, where AI handles dependency management, assists with incident resolution, cloud cost optimization, and developer support - ensuring the team can handle increasing scope and scale without having to grow in size
• Quality surge: You will prepare, define and ensure execution of the strategy for our CI/CD and artifact distribution systems to scale without increasing engineering toil
• Grow, mentor and coach a high-leverage platform team of 4 Infrastructure engineers, by setting clear expectations, giving actionable and timely feedback, and fostering a culture of empathy, autonomy, and continuous improvement, in an asynchronous, remote environment

Skills

• • Ability and/or willingness to use [our product](https://accounts.cloud.camunda.io/signup?_ga=2.47330343.127558761.1654184528-504024057.1654184528)
• • People leadership experience: track record of growing engineers to senior and beyond senior levels
• • Strong stakeholder leadership: Ability to translate tech needs into actionable engineering roadmap and strategy, and implement that across teams
• • Senior-level technical depth and competency: Hands-on experience with:
• + Cloud providers (e.g., GCP, AWS or similar)
• + Kubernetes (any distribution)
• + Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, ArgoCD or similar)
• + Scaling high-load CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions with self-hosted runners or similar)
• • Backend engineering background, fluent in at least one programming language (e.g. Python)
• • Comfortable at reviewing complex architecture and code; eager to contribute hands-on when needed (e.g. to implement internal workflow automations)
• • Proven track record of ensuring team efficiency within remote, async-first environments
• • Experience transforming teams into AI-native and/or automation-first teams
• • Background in technical product management or strong product thinking
• • Experience implementing FinOps practices and accountability

Benefits

• 100% variable target, where applicable
• Equity (where applicable) through our Virtual Stock Option Plan (VSOP)
• Work from anywhere with the setup that suits you
• Home office budget
• Co-working space support
• Flexible time off to recharge when you need it
• Annual Kickoff
• Team offsites
• Camundi Connection Budgets, including contributing to meetups while travelling and local gatherings with fellow Camundi
• Locally tailored healthcare
• Modern Health for global mental wellbeing
• Live Well Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA), launching in 2026 and scaling to €1,000 annually from 2027
• Retirement and pension plans, often with company contributions
• Life and disability insurance where relevant
• Up to $/€/£1,000 per year for self-driven learning: courses, certifications, books

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