Community Developer Lead
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Job overview
Orkes is hiring a Community Developer Lead. Orkes seeks a Community Developer Lead to drive open‑source community engagement, create technical education content, and represent the company at events, fostering relationships and feedback loops with developers to boost platform adoption.
Key focus areas include Interact with developers via online and in-person communities to drive awareness and usage, Answer technical questions, unblock users, and foster an inclusive community, and Educate developers on workflow orchestration, agentic workflows, and distributed systems.
Successful candidates bring 2+ Years Impactful Experience In Engagement With Developers For Deeply Technical Products In A Community Context. Important skills include Developer Community Engagement, Technical Foundation, Writing Code, Troubleshooting, Evaluating New Technologies, and Creating Technical Educational Content. Preferred (not required): Developer Marketing, Technical Content Creation, Developer Relations, and Developer Education.
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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
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Interacting with developers via various online and in-person communities to drive awareness, engagement and usage of our products
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Answer technical questions, unblock users, and foster an inclusive, knowledgeable, and strong community that developers want to be a part of
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Educate developers on workflow orchestration, agentic workflows, and distributed systems through your content and community programs
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Build real relationships to empower our contributors, advocates, and power users
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Create educational content such as blogs, tutorials, videos, walkthroughs, and learning materials
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End-to-end ownership of webinars, workshops, AMAs, demos, and community events
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Represent Orkes at conferences, meetups, podcasts, and online events
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Bring developer feedback back to Product and Engineering to help improve Orkes
What We’re Looking For Must-Haves
2+ years of impactful experience in engagement with developers for deeply technical products in a community context
• A proactive, self-directed person who thrives in any situation and enjoys working alongside developer communities
A strong technical foundation. You’ve written code and understand how developers think, build, troubleshoot, and evaluate new technologies
You’ve created technical educational content in the past such as presentations, written work, videos, demos, and workshops
You can take something complex and make it click for developers who are seeing it for the first time You are a highly resilient person that’s also execution-focused.
Nice-to-Haves
Open source community experience
An existing audience or online presence in the developer space
Conference talks/webinars/event hosting under your belt
Familiarity with agentic workflow orchestration, in particular Conductor/Orkes
What Makes This Role Different
This role is a blend of technical marketing, community building, and developer relations
Opportunity to shape how developers discover and learn about Orkes
Close collaboration with Engineering, Product, and open-source community members
Location
SF Bay Area or Seattle
In office or hybrid
How to Stand Out We’d love to see examples of your work:
Blogs, tutorials, instructional content, GitHub
Conference talks/coding voice-overs/webinars
Community stewardship and contributions or open source involvement
Anything that shows how you think and communicate
Compensation: $120-150k base plus equity
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