Senior Product Builder - Hub

About this role

Own the backend architecture that enables Camunda Hub to manage fleets of clusters across an organization. Build mechanisms for distributing configuration and access changes to clusters, and returning deployment, health, audit, and licensing data to Hub. Shape foundational platform capabilities, including eventing, service boundaries, and resilience.

About the company

Camunda is a software company that provides process management and automation solutions, enabling organizations to model, execute, and optimize business processes. They serve a range of industries with a focus on improving operational efficiency and collaboration.

The team

Camunda Hub pod

Stack

What you'll do

• Develop and scale Hub’s fleet propagation mechanism for access, secrets, tenants, licences, and custom roles.
• Design and ship foundational backend changes with concise design documents and tested code.
• Define system behavior for offline clusters, partial failures, Hub outages, and cluster adoption or detachment.
• Build cluster-to-Hub reporting for deployments, health, audit records, and licence status.
• Design Hub’s event and webhook mechanism.
• Participate in on-call and support backend quality through reviews, guidelines, and contract tests.

What we're looking for

• Experience designing and shipping control planes or similar systems that distribute desired state to many targets.
• Senior backend experience with Java, API design, relational data models, and multi-tenant SaaS.
• Hands-on experience with Helm and Kubernetes for self-managed installations.
• Strong distributed-systems architecture and failure analysis experience, including production incident response and on-call readiness.
• Ability to shape APIs and platforms as products, write design documents, and build agreement across teams.
• Uses AI tools from written specifications and carefully validates their output.

Nice to have

• Kubernetes operators or GitOps tools such as Argo CD.
• Experience with OIDC, SCIM, permission models, secret managers, or licence systems.
• Camunda 8 or another workflow or orchestration engine.
• Frontend skills for building a thin UI over backend capabilities.

Benefits

• Remote work, flexible time off, home-office budget, and coworking support.
• Equity through a Virtual Stock Option Plan where applicable.
• Annual kickoff, team offsites, and local connection budgets.
• Locally tailored healthcare, global mental wellbeing support, and a lifestyle spending account.
• Retirement or pension plans and insurance where applicable.
• Up to $/€/£1,000 per year for self-directed professional learning.