Senior Backend Engineer - AI Orchestration (In-Office)

Orkes; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Flexible PTO

Personal development

Job summary

Orkes is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build the multi-cloud control plane for AI agent workflows. You will own architecture, guardrails, and orchestration layers to productionize complex agent interactions.

The in-office role in Santa Clara offers a competitive base salary with equity and benefits. You will work with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and distributed systems at scale.

Qualifications

• 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
• Drives ambiguous, cross-team initiatives from problem to measured outcome
• Owns operational architecture – on-call, observability, SLOs, blast-radius containment
• Ships full-stack vertical slices in React/TS when needed
• Distributed-systems architect – has designed systems with real consistency/availability tradeoffs at scale
• 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

Skills

Years of experience

Object oriented languages

Code reviews

Cloud platforms

Cross-team initiatives

On-call / SRE basics

React/TS experience

Distributed systems

AI coding guidance

Tools

Netflix Conductor

Temporal

Job description

Orkes is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build the multi-cloud control plane for AI agent workflows. You will own architecture, guardrails, and orchestration layers to productionize complex agent interactions.

The in-office role in Santa Clara offers a competitive base salary with equity and benefits. You will work with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and distributed systems at scale.