Senior Backend Engineer, Orkes

Full-Stack Capable

$180-240k

+ Equity

React

AWS

TypeScript

GCP

Java

C++

Azure

SpringBoot

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

5 days a week in office (Santa Clara, CA)

Modern workflow orchestration platform

Posted today

Modern workflow orchestration platform

21-100 employees

B2BInternal toolsOfficeSaaSAutomation

Posted today

$180-240k

+ Equity

React

AWS

TypeScript

GCP

Java

C++

Azure

SpringBoot

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

5 days a week in office (Santa Clara, CA)

21-100 employees

B2BInternal toolsOfficeSaaSAutomation

Company mission

To empower developers to build amazing applications easily without having to worry about resiliency or scale.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

7+ years of experience
Deep Object Oriented language experience (at least one; eg Java, Go, C++)
Sets patterns and leads reviews in a large codebase
Depth in one of AWS/Azure/GCP Cloud Platforms
Drives ambiguous, cross-team initiatives from problem to measured outcome
Owns operational architecture — on-call, observability, SLOs, blast-radius containment
Ships full-stack vertical slices in React/TS when needed
Distributed-systems architect — has designed systems with real consistency/availability tradeoffs at scale
AI-coding experience - look for those who prescribe/tell AI exactly what to do vs those who ask AI to make judgment calls and decisions

Desirable

All-three-clouds hands-on; Java/Spring Boot preferred; Netflix Conductor/Temporal; Go; multi-tenant control-plane at scale; chaos/perf engineering. Experience with building for portability vs. cloud-native calls

What the job involves

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Orkes, you will work at the frontier of agentic workflow development, building the platform that defines how enterprises scale AI agent interactions
You will own the architecture of our multi-cloud control plane, designing critical guardrails and orchestration layers that make complex agentic workflows production-ready
This is a unique opportunity to build mission-critical infrastructure that transforms experimental AI prototypes into scalable business engines
Department: Cloud & Platform Engineering
Reports to: Head of Engineering

Our take

Netflix's development of Conductor, built to cope with the platform's high level of video traffic, has been hugely popular, incorporated by leading brands including Tesla, GitHub and Deutsche Telekom. The creators of Conductor have now launched Orkes, which offers a cloud version of the tool.

The platform has full compatibility with the open source version and microservices and workflow orchestration at scale. Thousands of companies rely on the tool to build and deploy mission-critical applications and execute numerous other use cases, such as data protection workflows or CI/CD pipeline orchestration.

Orkes emerged from stealth following a successful fundraise in 2022, and it has prioritized building out its engineering and go-to-market teams. After further funding was awarded in 2026, Orkes is accelerating its product roadmap, investing in developer experience and adding more resources to its open-source Conductor platform.

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Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Apr 2026

$60m

SERIES B

Feb 2024

$20m

SERIES A

Total funding: $89.3m

Company benefits

Fully Distributed: We believe in a remote-first, truly distributed workforce
Stock Options: Our compensation packages optionally includes stock options
Medical, Dental, Vision: Comprehensive health insurance, for you and your loved ones
Flexible PTO: Take time off to rest, relax and re-charge with flexible PTO
Flexible Work Environment: We offer flexible working hours and other arrangements to match your needs

Company HQ

Cupertino, CA

Leadership

Jeu George

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Previously a Senior Software Design Engineer at Microsoft, Founder and CTO of PINKVILLA, and Architect at Netflix and Uber.

Viren Baraiya

(Co-Founder & CTO)

Previously VP at Goldman Sachs, Engineering Manager at Netflix and Engineering Leader at Google.

Dilip Lukose

(Co-Founder & CPO)

Previously a Director of Product Management at Redfin, the Head of Azure Edge Secure Deliver & Infrastructure at Microsoft, a Principal Product Manager at Cisco and a Senior Product Manager at AWS.

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