Engineering Manager - Infrastructure

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 the 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 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.

About the Role

At Camunda, our CI/CD infrastructure platform is treated as an internal product. Our mission is to build a platform that offers a Golden Path, enabling 150+ engineers across 20+ teams to deliver with world-class velocity and uncompromising quality at scale, allowing Camunda engineers to focus on building the agentic technologies that will define our market leadership.

We are approaching a pivotal phase: an upcoming quality surge that will significantly increase testing volume and engineering throughput. Our platform must scale seamlessly without increasing developer toil.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager who acts as a servant leader. You will guide a high-leverage remote team of four infrastructure engineers and drive the evolution toward a scalable zero-toil platform.

What You'll Be Doing

• Ensure we continuously deliver and improve our infrastructure platform.
• Guide the team through a massive reduction of manual work by employing an AI-driven engineering approach. Reach a zero-touch scalable infrastructure where AI handles dependency management, assists with incident resolution, cloud cost optimization, and developer support.
• 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.

What You Bring

• Ability and/or willingness to use our product.
• People leadership experience with a track record of growing engineers to senior and beyond senior levels.
• Strong stakeholder leadership: ability to translate tech needs into an actionable engineering roadmap and strategy across teams.
• Senior-level technical depth and competency with hands-on experience in:
  • 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 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.

Nice-to-Haves

• 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.