Community Developer Lead

<p><strong>About Us<br><br></strong>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.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <pre>&nbsp;</pre> <h4 data-section-id="1vtzf0l" data-start="397" data-end="420">About the Role</h4> <p>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.<br>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.</p> <p>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.&nbsp;</p> <h4>What You’ll Do</h4> <p data-section-id="1f8nmp8" data-start="1084" data-end="1124"><strong>Community Engagement</strong></p> <ul> <li>Interacting with developers via various online and in-person communities to drive awareness, engagement and usage of our products &nbsp;</li> <li>Answer technical questions, unblock users, and foster an inclusive, knowledgeable, and strong community that developers want to be a part of<br><br></li> <li>&nbsp;Educate developers on workflow orchestration, agentic workflows, and distributed systems through your content and community programs</li> <li>Build real relationships to empower our contributors, advocates, and power users<br><br></li> <li>Create educational content such as blogs, tutorials, videos, walkthroughs, and learning materials</li> <li>End-to-end ownership of webinars, workshops, AMAs, demos, and community events</li> <li>Represent Orkes at conferences, meetups, podcasts, and online events<br><br></li> <li>Bring developer feedback back to Product and Engineering to help improve Orkes</li> </ul> <h4 data-section-id="1biiopr" data-start="1975" data-end="2004">What We’re Looking For</h4> <p data-section-id="17ah4sd" data-start="2006" data-end="2022">Must-Haves</p> <ul data-start="2023" data-end="2348"> <li data-section-id="u0rquw" data-start="2023" data-end="2103"> <p>2+ years of impactful experience in engagement with developers for deeply technical products in a community context</p> </li> <li> <p>A proactive, self-directed person who thrives in any situation and enjoys working alongside developer communities<span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p> </li> <li data-section-id="i631v4" data-start="2186" data-end="2255"> <p>A strong technical foundation. You’ve written code and understand how developers think, build, troubleshoot, and evaluate new technologies</p> </li> <li data-section-id="13uwt67" data-start="2256" data-end="2348"> <p>You’ve created technical educational content in the past such as presentations, written work, videos, demos, and workshops</p> </li> <li data-section-id="13uwt67" data-start="2256" data-end="2348">You can take something complex and make it click for developers who are seeing it for the first time&nbsp;</li> <li data-section-id="13uwt67" data-start="2256" data-end="2348">You are a highly resilient person that’s also execution-focused.<br><br></li> </ul> <p data-section-id="mu89lh" data-start="2355" data-end="2374">Nice-to-Haves</p> <ul data-start="2375" data-end="2659"> <li data-section-id="el3j75" data-start="2375" data-end="2466"> <p>Open source community experience</p> </li> <li data-section-id="281zzz" data-start="2467" data-end="2547"> <p>An existing audience or online presence in the developer space</p> </li> <li data-section-id="df93gm" data-start="2548" data-end="2605"> <p>Conference talks/webinars/event hosting under your belt</p> </li> <li data-section-id="1hg0bu0" data-start="2606" data-end="2659"> <p>Familiarity with agentic workflow orchestration, in particular Conductor/Orkes</p> </li> </ul> <h4 data-section-id="1gojkhg" data-start="2666" data-end="2703">What Makes This Role Different</h4> <ul data-start="2705" data-end="3038"> <li data-section-id="1kmpjnq" data-start="2705" data-end="2786"> <p>This role is a blend of technical marketing, community building, and developer relations</p> </li> <li data-section-id="18py4gz" data-start="2787" data-end="2876"> <p>Opportunity to shape how developers discover and learn about Orkes</p> </li> <li data-section-id="1kzhb8t" data-start="2877" data-end="2958"> <p>Close collaboration with Engineering, Product, and open-source community members</p> </li> </ul> <h4 data-section-id="ugfrvv" data-start="3045" data-end="3060">Location</h4> <ul data-start="3061" data-end="3138"> <li data-section-id="yc2yt5" data-start="3061" data-end="3095"> <p>SF Bay Area or Seattle</p> </li> <li data-section-id="1cywnsk" data-start="3096" data-end="3138"> <p>In office or hybrid</p> </li> </ul> <h4 data-section-id="707zyr" data-start="3145" data-end="3168">How to Stand Out</h4> <p data-start="3169" data-end="3208">We’d love to see examples of your work:</p> <ul data-start="3209" data-end="3342"> <li data-section-id="a0l1c7" data-start="3209" data-end="3236"> <p>Blogs, tutorials, instructional content, GitHub</p> </li> <li data-section-id="1wky38r" data-start="3237" data-end="3256"> <p>Conference talks/coding voice-overs/webinars</p> </li> <li data-section-id="2zfz3j" data-start="3257" data-end="3288"> <p>Community stewardship and contributions or open source involvement</p> </li> <li data-section-id="r4u5ni" data-start="3289" data-end="3342"> <p>Anything that shows how you think and communicate</p> </li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h4>Compensation:</h4> <p>$120-150k base plus equity</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h4 data-start="3405" data-end="3557">&nbsp;</h4>