Full-Time

Sales Development Representative

Orkes

Orkes

51-200 employees

Managed platform for distributed system orchestration

Compensation Overview

$80k - $100k/yr

Remote in USA

Remote

Category
Sales & Account Management (1)
Required Skills
Sales
Lead Generation
Cold Calling
Responsibilities
  • Generate qualified sales demos and meetings
  • Direct reach out to inbound leads via email, LinkedIn, and calls with highly relevant and personalized emails and calls
  • Source opportunities with our target accounts through cold emails and calls in collaboration with the marketing team and the ABM campaign
  • Participation in online conversations (i.e. LinkedIn) with interested people, relevant conversation topics, and target accounts
  • Conduct research on inbound and outbound target people and companies
  • Collaborate with the sales team to advance target accounts
  • Deep understanding of the product and target audiences
  • Enter, update, and maintain CRM information on leads throughout the funnel
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience in sales development or inside sales roles, with a consistent track record of over attainment of weekly and monthly targets
  • Highly self-motivated with an obsession on outbound prospecting and working with prospects on understanding their pain points and offering solutions to address them
  • Strong coaching and mentoring skills, with the ability to motivate and develop a high-performing team.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build rapport and establish relationships with prospects and internal stakeholders.
  • Solid understanding of outbound sales methodologies, prospecting techniques, and sales processes.
  • Experience working with CRM and sales enablement tools (e.g.,Hubspot, 6Sense, ZoomInfo, Gong, Apollo, Outreach, Sales Navigator).
  • Prior experience selling commercial cloud services / products based on open source developer platform is a huge plus
  • Comfortable speaking about workflows, micro services, containers, serverless
  • Strong ability to articulate, educate and sell the business value to businesses of all sizes

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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Simplify's Take

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