Orkes

CommunityDeveloperLead

$120–150k Santa Clara, California, United States Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Lead candidates.

The Brief

“Community Developer Lead at Orkes. Skills: Community engagement, Developer marketing, Technical content. Interact with developers. Drive awareness”

What You'll Achieve.

Increase community engagement; Foster meaningful relationships; Create programs for participation; Create programs for contribution; Create programs for adoption

Industry & Context.

Problems you'll solve

Troubleshoot

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

2+ years developer engagement, Technical foundation, Written code, Created technical content, Make complex things click

Nice to Have

Open source experience, Existing audience, Online presence, Conference talks, Webinar hosting, Event hosting

What You'll Do.

Interact with developers

Answer technical questions

Foster inclusive community

Build real relationships

Create educational content

Represent Orkes at conferences

Represent Orkes at meetups

Represent Orkes on podcasts

Represent Orkes online

Bring developer feedback

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Product and Engineering; Open-source community members

Communication Scope

Technical education; Community interaction; Advocacy

Full Job Description

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

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