Full-Time

Sales Engineer

Sales

Orkes

Orkes

51-200 employees

Managed platform for distributed system orchestration

No salary listed

London, UK

Hybrid

Category
Sales & Solution Engineering (2)
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Required Skills
Kubernetes
Microsoft Azure
Python
JavaScript
Java
Docker
Microservices
AWS
DevOps
Google Cloud Platform
Requirements
  • Proven experience in a Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, or similar customer-facing technical role.
  • Strong knowledge of APIs, microservices, and cloud-native architectures.
  • Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Java, Python, Node.js).
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Excellent in mapping customer requirements to rapidly visualize compelling solutions leveraging Orkes’ platform capabilities
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
  • Hands-on experience with Workflow development and APIs
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Prior experience working with open-source software or communities.
  • Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and system integrations.
Responsibilities
  • Solution Expertise: Gain a deep understanding of Orkes' platform, architecture, and capabilities to act as a subject matter expert.
  • Customer Engagement: Partner with sales representatives to engage with prospects, assess their needs, and provide tailored demonstrations of Orkes solutions.
  • Technical Presentations: Lead compelling presentations, technical deep-dives, and proof-of-concept (POC) initiatives to showcase the value of Orkes to diverse stakeholders.
  • Requirements Gathering: Collaborate with customers to understand their technical requirements and design effective solutions leveraging Orkes' platform.
  • Solution Design: Partner with Orkes’ product and engineering team to map customer requirements and own rapid buildout of compelling solution demonstrations to showcase Orkes’ value proposition to customer
  • Customer RFI and RFP support: Partner with sales executives, marketing and product teams to own the timely completion of Orkes’ winning response to customer RFIs and RFPs
  • Feedback Loop: Act as a voice of the customer, providing feedback to product and engineering teams to influence the product roadmap.
  • Collaboration: Work closely with sales, customer support, product, and engineering teams to drive deals to closure and ensure customer success.
  • Training & Enablement: Drive customer training of Orkes platform, offering best practices and guidance on optimizing customer workflow development by leveraging latest capabilities such as GenAI and Advanced Human-Tasks
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with orchestration tools, workflow engines, or similar technologies is highly desirable.

Orkes.io provides a platform to build, scale, and observe distributed systems using Orkes Conductor, which lets users model business logic like a whiteboard while coding components in their preferred language and framework. The product runs at scale with minimal setup and offers end-to-end observability across the distributed landscape. It can be deployed as fully managed clusters hosted by Orkes or installed in the client’s cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP, or private cloud) and includes native access control, SSO, and audit logs for governance. Its goal is to help developers and enterprises efficiently build, modernize, and manage distributed applications with governance, scalability, and visibility, while supporting an active community of Conductor developers and architects.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$89.3M

Headquarters

Cupertino, California

Founded

2020

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What believers are saying

  • $60M Series B from AVP in April 2026 triples customers to 3,000 enterprises like Twilio and LinkedIn.
  • Gartner forecasts $450B AI spending in 2026, fueling Orkes' production AI agent deployments.
  • Naveo Commerce uses Orkes for real-time global inventory monitoring and disruption resolution.

What critics are saying

  • Temporal.io steals Conductor users with Rust durability, triggering migrations in 6-12 months.
  • Camunda 8.5 BPMN integration wins finance compliance audits over Orkes JSON in 12-18 months.
  • Netflix's 2023 Conductor abandonment leaves OSS unpatched, forcing paid Orkes migrations now.

What makes Orkes unique

  • Orkes Conductor, built by Netflix's original architects in 2016, adds enterprise AI orchestration to open-source workflows.
  • Agentspan platform converts natural language prompts into editable workflows with built-in governance.
  • Over 20 system tasks enable no-code HTTP, LLM, and event integrations without custom workers.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Professional Development Budget

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

2%

1 year growth

7%

2 year growth

8%
Startup Story Media
Feb 22nd, 2024
Orkes Secures $20M Funding Round Led by Nexus Venture Partners

Abhishek Sharma, Nexus Managing Director, who led the investment, will join Orkes' board.

Orkes
Feb 22nd, 2024
Orkes has raised a $20M Series A to power our next phase of growth

Orkes Platform makes it easy for developers to build higly reliable, distributed stateful applications

The Economic Times
Feb 22nd, 2024
Nexus Venture Partners leads $20 million funding at DevOps startup Orkes

Nexus Venture Partners, a US- and India-based venture capital major, has led a $25 million funding round in Orkes, an orchestration-focussed DevOps (developer operations) startup.

FinSMEs
Feb 21st, 2024
Orkes Raises $20M in Funding

Orkes raises $20M in funding.

TechCrunch
Feb 21st, 2024
Microservices Orchestration Platform Orkes Raises $20M Series A

Back in 2016, Netflix open-sourced Conductor, its microservices orchestration platform, but last December, it announced that it would discontinue maintaining it. Thankfully, for the many companies that rely on it, the creators of Conductor had previously left the company to launch Orkes, a startup that provides an enterprise-grade microservices platform based on the open-source project. Orkes took over the maintenance of Conductor for the time being and today the company announced that it has now raised a $20 million Series A on top of its $9.3 million seed round in 2022. The new round was led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Battery Ventures and Vertex Ventures US.The team built Conductor at Netflix in 2015, in part to help the development teams there keep pace with the rapid growth of the company and its needs. As Orkes co-CTO Viren Baraiya told me, the project quickly became popular within Netflix. “One of the things that we realized very quickly was that there is no kind of secret sauce here for Netflix