Orkes
Senior Backend Engineer (Full-Stack Capable)
$180K–$240K
In Office - Santa Clara, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 3, 2026
- Location
- In Office - Santa Clara, CA
Santa Clara, California, United States - Experience
- 7+ years of experience.
About the job
Build and operate Orkes’s multi-cloud control plane and orchestration infrastructure for production-scale AI agent workflows.
What you'll do
- Design architecture, guardrails, and orchestration layers for agentic workflows.
- Lead code patterns and reviews, and drive cross-team initiatives through measured outcomes.
- Own operational architecture and ship full-stack vertical slices in React/TS when needed.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of experience.
- Deep experience in at least one object-oriented language, such as Java, Go, or C++.
- Depth in one of AWS/Azure/GCP; experience designing distributed systems with consistency and availability tradeoffs at scale.
- Lead reviews and patterns in a large codebase; drive ambiguous cross-team initiatives; own on-call, observability, SLOs, and blast-radius containment; AI-coding experience.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with all three clouds; Java/Spring Boot; Netflix Conductor/Temporal; Go; multi-tenant control planes; chaos/performance engineering; or cloud portability.
Pay
$180,000–$240,000 USD base salary; plus generous equity (amount not stated).
Tools
Java, Go, C++, AWS, Azure, GCP, React/TS, Java/Spring Boot
AI focus
Build infrastructure for AI agent workflows; use AI-coding tools by directing them precisely rather than delegating judgment and decisions.
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