Senior Backend Engineer (Full-Stack Capable)
OrkesAI Orchestration company
Santa Clara, United States$180,000 – $240,000Senior
Battery Ventures
AVP
Prosperity7 Ventures
Nexus Venture Partners
Vertex Ventures US
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Senior Backend Engineer to build AI agent workflow platform.
- •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.
- •Key Responsibilities Own the architecture of our multi-cloud control plane.
- •Design critical guardrails and orchestration layers for complex agentic workflows.
- •Drive ambiguous, cross-team initiatives from problem to measured outcome.
- •Own operational architecture including on-call, observability, SLOs, and blast-radius containment.
- •Ship full-stack vertical slices in React/TS when needed.
- •Requirements 7+ years of experience.
- •Deep Object Oriented language experience (at least one; eg Java, Go, C++).
- •Sets patterns and leads reviews in a large codebase.
- •Depth in one of AWS/Azure/GCP Cloud Platforms.
- •AI-coding experience.
Required skills
JavaGoC++AWSAzureGoogle CloudReactTypeScript
Nice-to-have skills
SpringNode.jsKubernetesDockerCI/CD
Domain expertise
developer-toolsai
Benefits & perks
Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision, Flexible PTO, Support for personal development
Tech stack
JavaGoC++AWSAzureGoogle CloudReactTypeScript