Senior Backend Engineer (Full-Stack Capable)

• As a Senior Backend Engineer at Orkes, you will work at the frontier of agentic workflow development, building the platform that defines how enterprises scale AI agent interactions
• You will own the architecture of our multi-cloud control plane, designing critical guardrails and orchestration layers that make complex agentic workflows production-ready
• This is a unique opportunity to build mission-critical infrastructure that transforms experimental AI prototypes into scalable business engines
• Department: Cloud & Platform Engineering
• Reports to: Head of Engineering

Benefits

• Fully Distributed: We believe in a remote-first, truly distributed workforce
• Stock Options: Our compensation packages optionally includes stock options
• Medical, Dental, Vision: Comprehensive health insurance, for you and your loved ones
• Flexible PTO: Take time off to rest, relax and re-charge with flexible PTO
• Flexible Work Environment: We offer flexible working hours and other arrangements to match your needs

• Drives ambiguous, cross-team initiatives from problem to measured outcome
• Owns operational architecture — on-call, observability, SLOs, blast-radius containment
• 7+ years of experience
• Depth in one of AWS/Azure/GCP Cloud Platforms
• AI-coding experience - look for those who prescribe/tell AI exactly what to do vs those who ask AI to make judgment calls and decisions
• Sets patterns and leads reviews in a large codebase
• Distributed-systems architect — has designed systems with real consistency/availability tradeoffs at scale
• Ships full-stack vertical slices in React/TS when needed
• Deep Object Oriented language experience (at least one; eg Java, Go, C++)
• All-three-clouds hands-on; Java/Spring Boot preferred; Netflix Conductor/Temporal; Go; multi-tenant control-plane at scale; chaos/perf engineering. Experience with building for portability vs. cloud-native calls