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Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Camunda

Fully Remote
Remote
Worldwide
US hours

Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants

This fully remote full time position at Camunda is open worldwide, so South Africans can apply. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.

Job Description

Camunda isthe enterprise platform for agentic orchestration, enabling organizations to coordinateAI agents, people, and systemsacross 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.NamedGP Bullhound’s Top 100 Next Unicorn list,2025 Great Place to Work certified.Visionaryin2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™for Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies. ranked3rd in Flexa's 2026Most 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:

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, that will allow 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.

As an Infrastructure Engineer, you will be at the core of this transformation: designing, implementing, and running the CI/CD and artifact delivery systems. You’ll use your experience across cloud, Kubernetes, and GitHub Actions to scale our CI platform, and the artifact distribution systems.

This role does not have on-calls.

What You Will Do:
* Develop, operate, and scale the high-load Camunda’s Infrastructure Platform used daily by product teams for thousands of jobs.
Develop, operate, and scale the high-load Camunda’s Infrastructure Platform used daily by product teams for thousands of jobs.
* Ensure new product versions are reliably built and distributed to customers via our artifact storages.
Ensure new product versions are reliably built and distributed to customers via our artifact storages.
* Identify and remove developer pain points in our infrastructure, iterating toward smoother, more sensible processes.
Identify and remove developer pain points in our infrastructure, iterating toward smoother, more sensible processes.
* Act as a service-oriented partner to product teams: provide platform capabilities, advise on best practices, and support them in adopting our tooling.
Act as a service-oriented partner to product teams: provide platform capabilities, advise on best practices, and support them in adopting our tooling.
* Contribute to and help shape the team’s roadmap, technical decisions, and long-term vision for the platform.
Contribute to and help shape the team’s roadmap, technical decisions, and long-term vision for the platform.

What You Will Bring to the Role:

Must Haves:
* Growth mindset: Curious to learn, share knowledge, and continuously improve the systems and ways of working around you.
Growth mindset: Curious to learn, share knowledge, and continuously improve the systems and ways of working around you.
* Core infrastructure experience in:Container orchestration (productionexperience with Kubernetes required)Infrastructure as Code (any of: Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible)Cloud providers (any of: GCP, AWS, Azure)Experience in high-scale CI systems (e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins - with self-hosted runners)
Core infrastructure experience in:
* Container orchestration (productionexperience with Kubernetes required)
Container orchestration (productionexperience with Kubernetes required)
* Infrastructure as Code (any of: Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible)
Infrastructure as Code (any of: Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible)
* Cloud providers (any of: GCP, AWS, Azure)
Cloud providers (any of: GCP, AWS, Azure)
* Experience in high-scale CI systems (e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins - with self-hosted runners)
Experience in high-scale CI systems (e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins - with self-hosted runners)
* Programming skills: Comfortable with at least one general-purpose language (e.g., either of Python, Groovy, Go, JS, and/or Java).
Programming skills: Comfortable with at least one general-purpose language (e.g., either of Python, Groovy, Go, JS, and/or Java).
* Proven ability to thrive in remote, asynchronous teams and work effectively across teams.
Proven ability to thrive in remote, asynchronous teams and work effectively across teams.
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Tips for South African Applicants

Timezone Advantage

South Africa (SAST, UTC+2) overlaps well with European business hours and has a few hours of overlap with US East Coast. Mention your timezone flexibility in your application.

Salary in Context

Even without a listed salary, international remote roles typically pay 2-3x more than equivalent local positions in South Africa due to the exchange rate advantage.

Application Tips

Tailor your CV to international standards — use a clean format, highlight remote work experience, and include your English proficiency. Many SA applicants succeed by emphasising their strong work ethic and cultural adaptability.

Load Shedding Preparedness

If you're applying for a remote role, having a backup power solution (UPS, inverter, or generator) and mobile data as a backup internet connection shows employers you're prepared for South Africa's infrastructure challenges.

About Camunda

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