Community Developer Lead, Orkes
$120-150k
Plus equity
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
Modern workflow orchestration platform
Open for applications
Modern workflow orchestration platform
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$120-150k
Plus equity
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower developers to build amazing applications easily without having to worry about resiliency or scale.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of impactful experience in engagement with developers for deeply technical products in a community context
- A proactive, self-directed person who thrives in any situation and enjoys working alongside developer communities
- A strong technical foundation. You’ve written code and understand how developers think, build, troubleshoot, and evaluate new technologies
- You’ve created technical educational content in the past such as presentations, written work, videos, demos, and workshops
- You can take something complex and make it click for developers who are seeing it for the first time
- You are a highly resilient person that’s also execution-focused
- Conference talks/webinars/event hosting under your belt
Desirable
- Open source community experience
- An existing audience or online presence in the developer space
- Familiarity with agentic workflow orchestration, in particular Conductor/Orkes
- We’d love to see examples of your work:
- Blogs, tutorials, instructional content, GitHub
- Conference talks/coding voice-overs/webinars
- Community stewardship and contributions or open source involvement
- Anything that shows how you think and communicate
What the job involves
- We’re looking for someone well-versed in Developer Community Engagement to drive our open-source community
- This is a high-impact, externally-facing role for someone who genuinely loves the developer community and wants to help it grow around Orkes and Conductor
- This role sits at the intersection of community engagement, developer marketing, and technical content creation
- You’ll help developers discover Orkes and aid them in successfully adopting the platform through high-quality technical education, community interaction, and advocacy. You’ll serve as a catalyst for increasing community engagement, fostering meaningful relationships, and creating programs that encourage participation, contribution, and long-term adoption
- This is the perfect role for someone with a background in working with developer communities, a passion for technology, and excitement about helping create agentic transformation for developers and organizations. Ideally, you have a background in technical marketing, developer relations, or developer education and enjoy being externally visible to our community
- Interacting with developers via various online and in-person communities to drive awareness, engagement and usage of our products
- Answer technical questions, unblock users, and foster an inclusive, knowledgeable, and strong community that developers want to be a part of
- Educate developers on workflow orchestration, agentic workflows, and distributed systems through your content and community programs
- Build real relationships to empower our contributors, advocates, and power users
- Create educational content such as blogs, tutorials, videos, walkthroughs, and learning materials
- End-to-end ownership of webinars, workshops, AMAs, demos, and community events
- Represent Orkes at conferences, meetups, podcasts, and online events
- Bring developer feedback back to Product and Engineering to help improve Orkes
- This role is a blend of technical marketing, community building, and developer relations
- Opportunity to shape how developers discover and learn about Orkes
- Close collaboration with Engineering, Product, and open-source community members
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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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