Manager, Engineering - Identity at Camunda

About the Company

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, Camunda is transforming into an AI-first organization built on its own platform, using Agentic AI to automate, orchestrate intelligent processes, and elevate human contribution across every team.

Camunda has been named to GP Bullhound's Top 100 Next Unicorn list, is a 2025 Great Place to Work certified company, a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies, and ranked 3rd in Flexa's 2026 Most Flexible Companies.

About the Role

An extensible, integration-ready enterprise-grade IAM solution is integral to Camunda's long-term strategy. As the next Engineering Manager for Identity, you will lead the team that builds and delivers the Identity and Access Management (IAM) foundation that powers the entire Camunda 8 platform, both on-premise and as part of the SaaS offering.

This is a key role that can have a deep impact on Camunda's success, offering the chance to directly impact the company's growth. As engineering manager, you will be tasked with end-to-end delivery of these solutions and work closely with other engineering teams to ensure they are well integrated across the entire stack, making it secure, enterprise-ready, and easy to integrate at scale. You will coach and grow your team to deliver a high quality product within a predictable timeframe.

At Camunda, engineering is approached in a holistic manner. You will form strong partnerships with product management, design, QA, and sales, and work with your peers to not only deliver but directly influence the evolution of the platform to meet customer needs.

What You Will Do

• Own end-to-end delivery of reusable IAM components across the Camunda 8 stack, shaping authentication (multi-protocol), authorization (RBAC), and federated organization management that work seamlessly for large, integration-heavy enterprises.
• Partner closely with multiple engineering teams, SREs, QA, and the Product Leadership Team to develop and drive a clear technical and product vision, transparently steward the roadmap, and track commitments from support, incidents, and the product backlog.
• Raise the bar on reliability and efficiency: keep build and release pipelines low effort and stable, ship security fixes within SLOs, and drive down support load, bug count, and incident rate.
• Grow and coach a team of senior and developing engineers, setting clear expectations, giving actionable feedback, and creating a culture of autonomy, accountability, and continuous improvement, especially in an asynchronous, remote environment aligned to the DRI model.
• Help mature the SaaS offering for large scale enterprise customers, ensuring it can easily integrate with customer's own IAM solutions in a safe, reliable way.

What You Will Bring to the Role

Must Haves

• Senior level technical depth in IAM and enterprise software: you can review designs, ask the right questions, and represent your team to technical and non-technical stakeholders with clarity.
• Proven track record leading medium to large delivery: you have owned 6 month scale projects from inception to release, guiding 3 to 5+ engineers, writing solution designs and project plans, and delivering on time without micromanagement in a remote, asynchronous setting.
• Hands on experience either implementing or integrating IAM solutions; you understand protocols like OIDC and SAML and how they work in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management: you translate business requirements into actionable engineering plans, can speak with customers when needed, and drive decisive, low churn outcomes.
• Background in product engineering for integration-heavy B2B products (not primarily consulting), with a deep appreciation for enterprise needs around security, operability, and performance.
• Ability and/or willingness to use the product.

Nice to Haves

• Experience with workflow orchestration platforms or similar distributed systems.
• Familiarity with Spring Security and the broader Spring ecosystem.
• Experience implementing IAM federation.
• Experience with clustered and distributed, eventually consistent applications.
• Experience with L3 support and incident management.
• Experience working in a fully remote organization.

Compensation

Camunda offers 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 plus 100% variable target, where applicable) spans from the minimum in a Standard market to the maximum in a Major market. Final offers depend on skills, experience, and location, and Camunda typically hires in the first half of the range to allow room for growth.

• United States: $172,600.00 to $278,300.00
• United Kingdom: £108,400.00 to £178,300.00
• Singapore: S$214,400.00 to S$321,500.00
• Canada: C$183,300 to C$301,500

If you are based elsewhere, you will be hired via Remote.com (Camunda's global employer partner), and your Talent Acquisition Partner will provide a personalized Total Rewards Calculator after your first interview.

Equity: Camunda also offers equity (where applicable) through a Virtual Stock Option Plan (VSOP).

Benefits and Perks

Camunda invests in your wellbeing, growth, and ability to connect, along with perks that support you no matter where you are based. Benefits are globally designed and locally delivered where applicable.

• Remote and 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: Meaningful face time through the 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 and Wellbeing: Locally tailored healthcare, Modern Health for global mental wellbeing, and the Live Well Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA), a flexible global benefit that puts you in control of your whole life including staying active, 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 EUR annually from 2027.
• Financial Security: Retirement and pension plans (often with company contributions), plus life and disability insurance where relevant.
• Professional Growth: Up to $/EUR/GBP 1,000 per year for self-driven learning, including courses, certifications, and books.

Equal Opportunity

Camunda strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers its people. As 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.