5 months ago
Seattle, WA, USA or Santa Clara, CA, USASenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$200k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and design for core Conductor services with a focus on scalability, resiliency, and performance.
- Solve complex distributed-systems challenges and influence near-term delivery and long-term technical direction.
- Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver high-impact features.
- Mentor engineers, improve team practices, and promote technical excellence.
- Champion open-source contributions and community adoption for Conductor.
- Evaluate and introduce technologies, frameworks, and tooling for distributed computing.
- Establish coding, testing, observability, and operational-readiness best practices.
- Lead large cross-team technical initiatives from inception through delivery and align engineering work with business strategy and customer needs.
Requirements
- Deep backend engineering experience with Java and Spring Boot.
- Proven experience architecting large-scale distributed systems and event-driven applications.
- Expertise with REST, gRPC, asynchronous messaging systems, and cloud-native architectures.
- Experience leading large, cross-team technical initiatives.
- Strong technical mentorship, communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure is helpful.
- Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes is helpful.
- Familiarity with API design, REST, GraphQL, event-driven architectures, and messaging systems is helpful.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Personal development support.
- Full-time position reporting to the CTO; the posting states both in-office work in Santa Clara or Seattle and remote work in the US/Pacific time zone.
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About Orkes
Orkes provides a workflow orchestration platform for building and operating distributed, event-driven applications, including Orkes Cloud—managed, security-hardened clusters compatible with open-source Netflix Conductor with added enterprise features. It sells SaaS and enterprise subscriptions used across fintech, e-commerce, logistics, and healthcare. Founded in 2020 by ex-Netflix engineers who created Conductor, Orkes is privately held and headquartered in Cupertino, California.