--- title: 'Community Developer Lead at Orkes' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/community-developer-lead-orkes-santa-clara-ca-or-seattle-s69x65rrkyv1' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # Community Developer Lead at Orkes - **Company:** Orkes - **Location:** Santa Clara CA OR Seattle, WA - **Posted:** 2026-06-11 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/orkes/jobs/5255683008 ## Job description ## About Us Orkes is building the platform that powers the next generation of enterprise applications and AI systems. Founded by the creators of the open-source Netflix Conductor orchestration platform, Orkes helps organizations build, deploy, and operate mission-critical workflows and AI agents at massive scale. Our platform combines workflow and agent orchestration, integrations, observability, and resilience into a unified developer experience, enabling teams to build and operate complex deterministic and agentic workflows with confidence. From global enterprises to fast-growing startups, customers rely on Orkes to automate business-critical processes and execute billions of workflow and agent executions with the reliability, visibility, and fault tolerance required for production systems. ## About the Role 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. ## What You’ll Do Community Engagement - 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 ## What We’re Looking For Must-Haves - 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. Nice-to-Haves - Open source community experience - An existing audience or online presence in the developer space - Conference talks/webinars/event hosting under your belt - Familiarity with agentic workflow orchestration, in particular Conductor/Orkes What Makes This Role Different - 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 Location - SF Bay Area or Seattle - In office or hybrid How to Stand Out 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 Compensation: $120-150k base plus equity ## About Orkes ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Orkes provides a modern workflow orchestration platform that enables developers to build, run, and observe durable, distributed applications and AI agents at scale. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A / Seed; raised $29.3M total funding) - **Headquarters**: Cupertino, California, United States - **Founded**: 2020 - **Founders**: Jeu George (CEO), Viren Baraiya (CTO), Dilip Lukose (CPO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Software Development / Workflow Orchestration / AI Agent Platforms - **Target customers**: B2B – Developers and engineering teams at enterprises (Fortune 500) and SMBs building distributed, event-driven applications. - **Mission**: “Empower developers to build and scale distributed applications with high levels of observability, security, and durability.” [orkes.io/about-us](https://www.orkes.io/about-us) ## Products & Services - **Orkes Cloud**: Fully managed, security-hardened orchestration platform with enterprise features – durable execution, real-time monitoring, audit logs, human-in-the-loop, and AI agent integration. (SaaS) - **Conductor Open Source**: The popular open-source orchestration engine originally created at Netflix, extended and maintained by Orkes. (Open Source / Community) - **Conductor Agent SDK**: Native SDKs (Python, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, etc.) for building AI agents and workflows that combine deterministic execution with AI reasoning. (API / SDK) ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed - **Key Metrics**: Annual Revenue ~$2.4M (LinkedIn estimate); Total Funding $29.3M - **Funding Rounds**: - Seed Round (2022‑02‑28): $9.3M led by Vertex Ventures and Battery Ventures - Series A (2024‑02‑21): $20M led by Nexus Venture Partners - Series B: led by AVP (investor count and amount not specified) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Nexus Venture Partners, Vertex Ventures, Battery Ventures, AVP - **Growth Signals**: - 59 employees (+10.8% YoY) as of mid‑2026 - 18,840 LinkedIn followers (+67.6% yearly) - 13 active job postings (+1200% YoY in job posting trends) - Used by “thousands of organizations globally” and Fortune 500 companies - Operates in 9 countries (US, India, UK, Australia, Singapore, Argentina, UAE, Paraguay, Netherlands) ## Competitive Advantages - **Founding Team**: Built by the original creators of Netflix Conductor OSS – deep domain expertise in orchestration at massive scale. - **Open Source Foundation**: Trusted by a broad community; enterprise features built on top of battle-tested open‑source code. - **AI + Determinism**: Unique ability to combine AI agent reasoning (model‑agnostic) with deterministic, durable workflow execution – bringing trust, explainability, and governance to AI‑powered processes. - **Enterprise Ready**: Up to 99.99% availability SLA, fine‑grained RBAC, complete audit trails, and support for AWS, Azure, GCP, or on‑prem deployments. ## Strategic Focus - Becoming “the operating system for AI agents and workflows” – building a unified platform where agents and workflows are first‑class citizens. - Leading the convergence of AI reasoning and deterministic execution for mission‑critical business operations. - Scaling enterprise adoption across industries while growing the open‑source Conductor community. - Expanding developer relations, content engineering, and global sales presence (visible from active job postings for Community Developer Lead, Content Engineer, Solutions Architect, etc.). ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Values**: Developer‑first, transparent communication, passion for solving real‑world problems, bias for action (“fail fast”), and high collaboration. Strong emphasis on open‑source contribution and authenticity. [orkes.io/about-us](https://www.orkes.io/about-us) - **Work Environment**: Fully distributed / remote‑first with flexible hours. Offices in Cupertino, Santa Clara, Seattle, and other hubs. “We believe in a remote‑first, truly distributed workforce.” [orkes.io/careers](https://orkes.io/careers) - **Compensation & Perks**: Top‑of‑market salaries, stock options, flexible PTO, comprehensive medical/dental/vision coverage. - **Engineering Culture**: Opportunity to work on cutting‑edge orchestration infrastructure used by Fortune 500 companies; active contribution to open source; modern tech stack (SDKs in multiple languages, cloud‑native, AI integration). - **Growth Trajectory**: Rapidly scaling (job postings up 1200% YoY) with strong funding and a dedicated team – ideal for those who want high impact in a fast‑growing startup. ## Sources 1. [orkes.io/about-us](https://www.orkes.io/about-us) 2. [orkes.io/careers](https://orkes.io/careers) 3. [orkes.io](https://orkes.io/) 4. [LinkedIn – Orkes](https://www.linkedin.com/company/orkes-inc) 5. 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