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title: 'Technical Program Manager at Orkes'
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# Technical Program Manager at Orkes

- **Company:** Orkes
- **Location:** Cupertino, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-05-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/orkes/jobs/5228109008

## Job description

## About Orkes

Orkes is on a mission to empower developers and enterprises worldwide to build highly scalable applications effortlessly. We are achieving this by taking Netflix Conductor, one of the most popular open-source workflow orchestration platforms, and offering it as a cloud-delivered service.

Our team includes the original founders of Conductor, and we are backed by leading VC and angel investors in Silicon Valley. We value mission focus, a bias for action, and a culture of diversity and inclusion. Our strategy centers on customer needs, delivering class-leading operational excellence to multiply their impact.

## The Role

We are seeking a highly driven Technical Program Manager (TPM) to join our agile core team. You will be responsible for scoping and delivering programs across engineering, security, compliance, and customer initiatives. This is an entrepreneurial environment where you will thrive in ambiguity and manage competing priorities to drive projects from end to end.

## Key Responsibilities

- Program Delivery: Scope and deliver complex programs spanning multiple domains including engineering, security, and compliance.
- Operational Frameworks: Build and maintain frameworks to plan, track, and report on multiple concurrent projects.
- Stakeholder Management: Work closely with individual contributors, managers, and the founding team throughout the project lifecycle.
- End-to-End Ownership: Drive projects through completion, including documentation, marketing, analytics, and feature delivery.
- Technical Impact: Leverage your technical background to understand how decisions affect our highly technical customer base.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify, prioritize, and initiate new programs that improve operational efficiency.

## Requirements

Must-Have Experience

- Proven track record in Technical Program Management.
- Prior software engineering experience.
- Excellent verbal, written, and visual communication skills.
- Experience with backend services delivery.
- Experience managing large scale, cross functional projects from development to customer launch.

Nice-to-Have Skills

- Background in Cloud services.
- Background in Developer products.
- Background in software development.

Why Join Orkes?

- Impact: Work as a "hacker" across traditional boundaries in engineering, security, and compliance.
- Innovation: Flex your entrepreneurial instincts to rapidly innovate on processes and customer-impacting ideas.
- Growth: Accelerate your career by contributing to an early-stage, growth-mode startup alongside world-class teams.
- Collaboration: Work directly with the founding team and experts in software engineering, DevRel, and marketing.

Location: Santa Clara, CA Comp: ~$150K–$180K base + 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. [Greenhouse – Jobs at Orkes](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/orkes)

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