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title: 'Lead Technical Recruiter at Orkes'
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# Lead Technical Recruiter at Orkes

- **Company:** Orkes
- **Location:** Santa Clara, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-08-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/orkes/jobs/5396233008

## Job description

Lead Technical Recruiter, Engineering & GTM

Location: Santa Clara, CA (3-5 days/week onsite)

## About Orkes

Orkes is building the modern workflow orchestration platform for distributed applications, helping engineering teams simplify complex systems, automate workflows, and build reliable cloud-native applications at scale. Built on the open-source Conductor project, we're growing rapidly and scaling a world-class engineering organization alongside our go-to-market teams.

We're looking for an experienced Lead Technical Recruiter to help us attract exceptional technical and commercial talent during our next stage of growth.

The Opportunity

As our  Lead Technical Recruiter, you'll partner closely with our HR Manager and executive leadership to build the teams that will shape the future of Orkes.

This is a highly strategic, hands-on recruiting role. You'll own full-cycle recruiting for technical and go-to-market hiring while helping establish scalable recruiting practices for a fast-growing startup.

We're looking for someone who loves sourcing difficult-to-find talent, understands competitive hiring markets, and enjoys partnering directly with hiring managers to build exceptional teams.

## What You'll Do

Own Technical Recruiting

- Lead full-cycle recruiting for Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, Solutions Engineering, Product, and Technical Leadership roles
- Recruit senior-level individual contributors, including Senior, Staff, and Principal Engineers
- Build pipelines for difficult-to-fill technical positions through proactive sourcing and networking

Support GTM Hiring

- Recruit for strategic Go-to-Market positions including:
- Enterprise Account Executives
- Sales Engineers
- Customer Success
- Solutions Architects
- Technical Support Leadership

Build Talent Pipelines

- Develop proactive sourcing strategies rather than relying solely on inbound applicants
- Build relationships with passive candidates across engineering and enterprise software communities
- Maintain healthy talent pipelines for future hiring needs

Partner with Hiring Leaders

- Advise hiring managers on market trends, compensation, and candidate availability
- Run effective intake meetings and develop recruiting strategies for each search
- Drive interview processes and deliver an exceptional candidate experience

Improve Recruiting Operations

- Manage candidate pipelines and ATS workflows
- Continuously improve recruiting processes, reporting, and hiring efficiency
- Partner with agencies when needed while prioritizing internally sourced talent
- Help establish scalable recruiting best practices as the company grows

## What We're Looking For

- 6+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience
- Experience recruiting for venture-backed startups or high-growth SaaS companies
- Proven success hiring Software Engineers, Platform Engineers, Infrastructure Engineers, and Engineering Leaders
- Experience recruiting Go-to-Market talent, including Enterprise Account Executives and technical customer-facing roles
- Strong sourcing expertise using LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, referrals, networking, and creative outbound strategies
- Experience hiring senior technical talent including Staff and Principal Engineers
- Excellent stakeholder management and hiring manager partnership skills
- Strong understanding of today's technical hiring landscape

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience recruiting in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, AI, developer tools, or enterprise software
- Experience supporting organizations scaling from early-stage startup through rapid growth
- Familiarity with engineering career leveling and technical interview processes

## Who You Are

- You're naturally curious and enjoy learning new technologies.
- You thrive in fast-paced startup environments where priorities evolve quickly.
- You're highly organized and know how to manage multiple searches simultaneously.
- You enjoy partnering with hiring managers and influencing hiring decisions.
- You're passionate about finding exceptional talent before competitors do.
- You believe sourcing is a competitive advantage, not simply posting jobs.

## Why Orkes

- Join a rapidly growing developer-first infrastructure company.
- Help build world-class engineering and GTM organizations from the ground up.
- Work directly with founders and executive leadership.
- High ownership, high visibility, and significant career growth.
- Competitive salary, equity, and benefits

Compensation:

$120-140k/year + stock options

## 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. [Greenhouse – Jobs at Orkes](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/orkes)

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