Senior Backend Engineer (Full-Stack Capable)

Orkes•Santa Clara, CA

4d•$180,000 - $240,000•Onsite

About The Position

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. 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.

Requirements

7+ years of experience
Deep Object Oriented language experience (at least one; eg Java, Go, C++)
Depth in one of AWS/Azure/GCP Cloud Platforms
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

Responsibilities

Own the architecture of our multi-cloud control plane.
Design critical guardrails and orchestration layers that make complex agentic workflows production-ready.
Build mission-critical infrastructure that transforms experimental AI prototypes into scalable business engines.
Sets patterns and leads reviews in a large codebase.
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.