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Senior Backend Engineer (Full-Stack Capable)

Orkes · In Office - Santa Clara, CA · On-site

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About Orkes

Determinism, durability, and explainability for your AI agents on the world. Backed by Battery.

About the role

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.

What they're looking for

  • 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
More about this role

*Position is IN OFFICE at our Santa Clara, CA (San Francisco Bay Area) office

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.

  • 7+ years of experience
  • Deep Object Oriented language experience (at...

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