About Us

Orkes is building the platform that powers the next generation of enterprise applications and AI systems. Founded by the creators of the open-source Netflix Conductor orchestration platform, Orkes helps organizations build, deploy, and operate mission-critical workflows and AI agents at massive scale. Our platform combines workflow and agent orchestration, integrations, observability, and resilience into a unified developer experience, enabling teams to build and operate complex deterministic and agentic workflows with confidence. From global enterprises to fast-growing startups, customers rely on Orkes to automate business-critical processes and execute billions of workflow and agent executions with the reliability, visibility, and fault tolerance required for production systems.

About the Role

We’re looking for someone well-versed in Developer Community Engagement to drive our open-source community. This is a high-impact, externally-facing role for someone who genuinely loves the developer community and wants to help it grow around Orkes and Conductor.
This role sits at the intersection of community engagement, developer marketing, and technical content creation. You’ll help developers discover Orkes and aid them in successfully adopting the platform through high-quality technical education, community interaction, and advocacy. You’ll serve as a catalyst for increasing community engagement, fostering meaningful relationships, and creating programs that encourage participation, contribution, and long-term adoption.

This is the perfect role for someone with a background in working with developer communities, a passion for technology, and excitement about helping create agentic transformation for developers and organizations. Ideally, you have a background in technical marketing, developer relations, or developer education and enjoy being externally visible to our community.

What You’ll Do

Community Engagement

Interacting with developers via various online and in-person communities to drive awareness, engagement and usage of our products
Answer technical questions, unblock users, and foster an inclusive, knowledgeable, and strong community that developers want to be a part of
Educate developers on workflow orchestration, agentic workflows, and distributed systems through your content and community programs
Build real relationships to empower our contributors, advocates, and power users
Create educational content such as blogs, tutorials, videos, walkthroughs, and learning materials
End-to-end ownership of webinars, workshops, AMAs, demos, and community events
Represent Orkes at conferences, meetups, podcasts, and online events
Bring developer feedback back to Product and Engineering to help improve Orkes

What We’re Looking For

Must-Haves

2+ years of impactful experience in engagement with developers for deeply technical products in a community context
A proactive, self-directed person who thrives in any situation and enjoys working alongside developer communities
A strong technical foundation. You’ve written code and understand how developers think, build, troubleshoot, and evaluate new technologies
You’ve created technical educational content in the past such as presentations, written work, videos, demos, and workshops
You can take something complex and make it click for developers who are seeing it for the first time
You are a highly resilient person that’s also execution-focused.

Nice-to-Haves

Open source community experience
An existing audience or online presence in the developer space
Conference talks/webinars/event hosting under your belt
Familiarity with agentic workflow orchestration, in particular Conductor/Orkes

What Makes This Role Different

This role is a blend of technical marketing, community building, and developer relations
Opportunity to shape how developers discover and learn about Orkes
Close collaboration with Engineering, Product, and open-source community members