Senior Developer Engineer

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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 a Visionary in 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.

The Senior Developer Experience Engineer is a role in our newly formed Camunda Ex(perience) team within Camunda's Product Engineering department.

In this role, you will play a key part in improving the experience for developers using our Camunda 8 stack. From governing APIs, such as the Orchestration Cluster REST API, to shaping and creating development tools for Camunda 8, like native Camunda clients (Existing:
Java
, Java script
; Planned: Python, C#) and test libraries (
Camunda Process Test
), you’ll have plenty of opportunities to leave your mark on the kick-ass polyglot Developer Experience we want to provide to our users!

In the new team and in this role specifically, you have the opportunity to have a significant impact on Camunda’s adoption in the industry, with a strong focus on the developer persona, building on the strengths and reputation Camunda has already established in the past. As a developer yourself, you will internally advocate and contribute hands-on to a well-crafted experience that seamlessly meets the expectations of other developers.

This is a role for a person who brings technical capabilities, creativity, autonomy, and vision, utilizing these skills to continuously shape our product for the better, raising the overall bar on the Developer Experience.

Curious about the kind of challenges you'll work on at Camunda? Watch this quick 30-minute talk from our engineers to learn more about the new Camunda Exporter and how we’re solving complex problems at scale

• In particular, your potential impact after 3 months with us, could look like the following:
  • REST API Governance
    • Steered the decision process on an API proposal
    • Resolved shortcomings of the current API Governance Process on cross-team collaboration
    • Extended Internal Developer Guidance on building new endpoints on our REST API
  • SDK/Development tools
    • Setup automated QA for client artifacts (
      Java
      , Java script
      ) and the system to ensure user-facing guarantees are met: semVer Public API guarantees, back- and/or forward compatibility
    • Actively contributed to the development of new native Clients (e.g., Python or C#), e.g. adding/contributing to a job worker framework
    • Improved existing clients (
      Java
      , Java script
      ) in one of the following ways: added a QoL improvement to the client - e.g., a generic backoff mechanism
• Extended our Camunda Spring Boot Starter by implementing one of the open feature requests

• Ability and/or willingness to use our product
• Extensive experience (5 years+) writing and maintaining production code in Java, C#, JavaScript, or Python - being opinionated on what a good Developer Experience entails
• Extensive experience (3 years+) with building coherent server APIs with OpenAPI and utilizing language-specific code generators to create and efficiently maintain native clients
• Proven experience (3 years+) writing documentation, code samples, examples, videos, or blog posts tailored towards a developer community or another external user audience
• Ability to work asynchronously with teams and cross-functional groups across time…