Senior Backend Engineer (Full-Stack Capable) at Orkes
In Office - Santa Clara, CA
$180,000–$240,000from the description
Aug 2, 2026
In Office - Santa Clara, CA
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior backend engineering role at an AI workflow orchestration platform, focused on building and owning the architecture of a multi-cloud control plane that makes agentic AI workflows production-ready at enterprise scale. The work centers on distributed systems design, cloud infrastructure, and orchestration layers, with occasional full-stack contributions in React/TypeScript. Best suited for engineers with deep distributed systems experience and hands-on cloud platform expertise.
Senior level · 7+ years · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,050 people in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 800–1,400
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $217,796 (middle half $177,469–$231,052). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 4, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The OOP language requirement lists Java, Go, and C++ as examples — Java is the primary name used; Go and C++ are captured as alternatives since the JD treats them as interchangeable for this gate.
The cloud platform requirement explicitly gates on depth in at least one of AWS, Azure, or GCP; all three are listed as alternatives to one another. The nice-to-haves section separately calls out hands-on experience with all three clouds.
React and TypeScript appear in the must-haves section framed as 'ships full-stack vertical slices in React/TS when needed' — included as required given their placement in the Must-haves block, though the 'when needed' framing suggests this is a secondary responsibility.
Spring Boot is listed under Nice-to-haves as 'preferred'; Netflix Conductor and Temporal are also Nice-to-haves and treated as interchangeable alternatives.
AI-coding experience is listed as a must-have but names no specific tool or platform, so it is omitted from the skills list per the guideline against emitting generic concepts.
Distributed systems design, observability/SLOs, and chaos/performance engineering are mentioned but name no specific tools, so they are omitted from the skills list.
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