Software Engineer - Enterprise Agentic Automation
$120k - $193k USD
Camunda is the leader in enterprise agentic automation, orchestrating complex business processes, including high-value knowledge work, across agents, people, and systems. By creating production-ready, enterprise-grade agents with built-in governance, Camunda uniquely delivers trusted AI agents for business-critical processes. Over 700 leading innovators like Atlassian, ING, and Vodafone, rely on Camunda to slash time-to-value from months to days, boost operational efficiency, and elevate customer experiences. Camunda was named aVisionaryin the inaugural 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™for Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (BOAT).
As a fully remote, global company, we’re rewriting the rules of modern business. Named GP Bullhound’s 2024 Top 100 Next Unicorn list, certified as a Great Place to Work, and recognized by Flexa for true flexibility, we’re growing fast and looking for top talent to join our team. If you’re excited to do meaningful work and make real impact, keep reading, this role could be the one you’ve been waiting for.
About the Role:
We’re entering a new era of automation, where Agentic AI can automate manual work like never before. At Camunda, we’re building the blueprint for this future, and our newly established internal Enterprise Agentic Automation Team (EAAT) is at the forefront of implementing use cases that realize these benefits for our organization, while driving thought leadership. As Software Engineer, Enterprise Agentic Automation, you'll engineer and operate production-grade agentic automation solutions and reusable components that automate critical processes at Camunda.
We are looking for T-shaped engineers with deep expertise in one core field and working fluency across the others.
For this role, the primary depth is Platform Development / DevOps, owning infrastructure automation, CI/CD for process models, workers, and agent configurations, and production observability to reliably operate enterprise agentic automation solutions.
In addition, you are interested in growing into Context Engineering, focusing on how agent behavior is shaped and operated safely in production.
What You Will Do:
Platform Development (Tool ecosystem, Integrations and reusable components)
Build and support CI/CD pipelines for process models, workers, agent prompts and configurations.
Develop and maintain reusable components, such as connectors, and tests
Automate provisioning of supporting services and environments using IaC (Terraform).
Ensure secure and reliable operations across environments (secrets, networking, monitoring)
Context Engineering
Design and govern static context (e.g. policies or business rules) and dynamic context (e.g. customer history) using retrieval-augmented generation where appropriate.
Encode business rules, policies, and risk constraints into deterministic AI guardrails
Define and operate context evaluation frameworks (e.g., golden datasets, rubrics, confidence thresholds) to evaluate agent performance
Monitor, version, and continuously improve context quality to ensure reliable and auditable AI behavior
Process Development (Modeling & Development)
Model, deploy, test and operate executable BPMN processes, workers, connectors, and AI agents.
Decide when to use deterministic process logic or dynamic agentic behaviour
Implement agentic orchestration patterns such as human-in-the-loop, decision automation, and agent evaluation patterns
Design and maintain agent specific prompts as part of our solutions
Solution Operations (Run & Support)
Operate Camunda solutions and agents in production, ensuring stability, resilience, and performance.
Monitor and respond to incidents, errors, and SLA breaches.
Implement observability, logging, and alerting for proactive operations and continuous improvement.
Stakeholder Engagement & Communication
Collaborate with internal business and IT stakeholders on enterprise use cases
Document and promote standards, patterns, and best practicesCommunicate system health, risks, and improvement opportunities to leadership and stakeholders.
Risk Management & Change Leadership
Ensure security, compliance, and access controls for Camunda solutions.
Contribute to resilience planning (e.g., failover and recovery strategies).
Support organizational adoption of new orchestration practices, especially regarding agentic orchestration patterns
What You Bring:
This role is open at both Intermediate and Senior levels; the scope of ownership and expectations will be calibrated based on experience.
Ability and/or willingness to use our product
3+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, platform, or DevOps roles, delivering and operating production-grade systems.
Experience designing and building backend systems that coordinate logic across multiple services using integration patterns, orchestration, event-driven architectures, or distributed system concepts.
Hands-on experience implementing services, integrations, or workers in a backend environment, contributing production-ready code.
Practical DevOps experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and observability to run reliable systems in production
Solid experience with Java/Spring or comparable backend technologies used for service and integration development.
Understanding of cloud-native services, networking and security fundamentals, and operating systems across environments.
Strong sense of ownership across build and run, comfort working cross-functionally, and motivation to grow into agentic orchestration and AI-driven automation.
Nice to Haves:
Hands-on experience with Camunda, BPMN, or other automation / orchestration platforms
Experience with agentic orchestration or human-in-the-loop automation patterns
Experience with context engineering to design and govern contextual inputs for AI systems (e.g., retrieval, rules, constraints, and evaluation signals)
Experience integrating AI or LLM-based components in enterprise environments
This role is an existing vacancy
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What We Have to Offer:
Compensation
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: $119,900.00 to $193,200.00
United Kingdom: £75,300.00 to £123,800.00
Singapore: S$148,900.00 to S$223,300.00
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
We invest in your wellbeing, growth, and ability to connect, along with perks that support you no matter where you’re based. Our benefits are globally designed and locally delivered where applicable.
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!
More of what we offer globally & in your country can be found 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!
Come join us and be part of Camunda’s incredible journey: Make an impact at a pivotal moment in our story!
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