Join Orkes as a Senior Backend Engineer to build mission-critical infrastructure for AI agent interactions in a collaborative environment.
Posted by employer 2 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
AI in the day-to-day
We enable enterprises to seamlessly bridge the gap between LLM-driven reasoning and deterministic execution.
Requirements
- Experience
- 7+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Senior Backend Engineer at Orkes, the individual will focus on developing and maintaining the architecture for a multi-cloud control plane that supports complex AI workflows. Proficiency in an object-oriented programming language, along with experience in cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP, is essential, as is the ability to lead cross-team initiatives and manage operational architecture. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers with a strong background in distributed systems and AI coding, looking to contribute to transformative infrastructure in a dynamic environment.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze September 3, 2026. Last confirmed on Orkes's careers page October 27, 2026.
- Salary band is in line with the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
- Starts above 53% of 117 comparable senior backend roles in United States that list AWS we track (median $174,915 across 53 companies). See AWS salary trends
- AWS appears in 31.2% of 516 comparable senior backend roles in United States; React appears in 10.5% of 516 comparable senior backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Backend Engineer (Full-Stack Capable) role remote?
- No — this is an on-site role in In Office - Santa Clara, CA .
- What's the salary range?
- Orkes lists $180,000–$240,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 7 years of relevant experience for this Senior Backend Engineer (Full-Stack Capable) role.
- Where is the role based?
- Orkes is hiring for this position in In Office - Santa Clara, CA .
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Azure, C++, GCP, Go, Java.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Orkes targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Backend Engineer (Full-Stack Capable) role at Orkes.
From the original posting
*Position is IN OFFICE at our Santa Clara, CA (San Francisco Bay Area) office
About Us
Orkes is the operating system for AI agents and workflows, providing the battle-tested infrastructure required to move AI from simple conversation to real-world action. Built on the open-source Conductor engine, our platform empowers developers to orchestrate complex business processes at scale, handling billions of workflows without worrying about failure or visibility. We enable enterprises to seamlessly bridge the gap between LLM-driven reasoning and deterministic execution, creating reliable pathways for AI to drive actual business value.
The Opportunity
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.
Must-haves
- 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
Nice-to-haves: 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
More Details
We offer a competitive total compensation package, featuring a base salary starting at $180,000–$240,000 depending on experience and leveling, plus generous equity. When determining compensation, a number of factors will be considered: skills, experience, job scope, location, and competitive compensation market data.
- Status: Full-Time
- Type: In-Office
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area (Santa Clara, CA)
- Department: Cloud & Platform Engineering
- Reports to: Head of Engineering
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