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Funding and backers

Total raised
$80M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$60M
Series B · Apr 2026 · 6 mo ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
19
open roles
Backers
1
Battery Ventures
The money's age
Fresh money
6 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
45/100
a new city, in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Apr 23 Raised a round Series B $60M Feb 20, 2024 Raised a round Series A $20M 2021 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.33%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
GitHub stars
40 public repositories
Hacker News stories
8
best: 15 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series B Apr 2026 $60M — axios.com
Series A Feb 2024 $20M — businesswire.com
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How Orkes hires

Truth index
C 60/100
Median time to fill
68 days
Ghost roles
58%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

Orkes scores C on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 19 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 58% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 68 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Orkes builds a managed platform around the open source Conductor orchestration engine. Its service coordinates distributed microservices and agent workflows. The company was founded by the creators of Conductor at Netflix.

News

Blog 1 month ago
Conductor Now Runs Agents Alongside Your Workflows, on the Same Durable Engine
Agents and workflows now run on the same durable engine so agents inherit everything that's made Conductor workflows reliable in production for years.
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Blog 3 months ago
Turn Any Function Into a Workflow Step: Build Your First Orkes Conductor Worker
A step-by-step tutorial for building an Orkes Conductor worker: register a task definition, write the worker, and wire it into a complete workflow with branching.
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Blog 3 months ago
What Are Workers in Orkes Conductor? How Your Own Code Fits Into a Workflow
What is a worker in Orkes Conductor? Learn how workers let you run your own code as a step in a workflow, how polling works, and when to write one.
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Blog 3 months ago
How to Build a UI Screenshot-to-Code AI Agent
Build an AI agent that turns UI screenshots into working React + TypeScript components. Drop in a design, get back clean, Tailwind-styled code in seconds.
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Blog 3 months ago
What Is Loop Engineering?
Loop engineering is building a loop around your agent so the agent can reprompt itself without you needing to do it. but you still need to keep yourself in the picture.
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Blog 4 months ago
Building Durable Loops with Conductor, Part 1: Why Agentic Loops, and Why Now?
Part one of a series on durable loops. Why agentic systems are loops, why naive loops fail as tasks get longer, and what makes a loop durable, grounded in a working Conductor OSS example.
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Blog 4 months ago
How to Reuse Workflows Inside Other Workflows in Orkes Conductor
Every time you copy workflow logic into a new workflow, you create a maintenance problem. Here's how the Sub Workflow task solves it.
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Blog 4 months ago
How to Connect an MCP Server to Your AI Agent (Without Leaking API Keys)
Wiring an MCP server into an agent usually means scattering API keys across every process that runs it. How to connect MCP tools with Agentspan and keep the credentials on the server.
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Blog 4 months ago
How to Process a List of Items in Parallel in Orkes Conductor
You have a workflow that needs to process a list of items and doing them one by one is too slow. Here's how the DYNAMIC_FORK task solves it.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Orkes over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
38
Postings analysed
19
Stack modernity
79/100AI adopter
Languages
Java53%
Python21%
JavaScript16%
C++11%
Frameworks & libraries
Spring Boot32%
React.js11%
Next.js11%
Recharts11%
Cloud & platforms
AWS42%
Azure42%
GCP42%
Kubernetes26%
AI & ML
LLM16%
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Full Orkes tech stack 38 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$190k
Typical range
$63k – $400k
Open positions
16
10 Jobs
Middle 10%
Senior 40%
Staff 30%
Architect 20%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Middle 1 $105k $105k
Senior 4 $240k $240k – $250k
Staff 3 $150k $140k – $260k
Architect 2 $190k $180k – $200k
Highest paying role Enterprise Account Executive $400k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Orkes By role, level and city, against the market · 16 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
53/100
Stable
Open positions
19
0 opened / 10 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
68 days
faster than 19% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
33% ▼
Security
17% ▼
HR
17% ▼
Solutions
17% ▼
Marketing
8% ▼
Sales
8% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: Bellevue Oct 2026
New location: Sydney Oct 2026
New location: Australia Oct 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
8
Hiring now
6
Countries
5
Busiest office
Cupertino
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Cupertino United States
HQ
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff $180k Avg Salary
hires for Product
seen since Apr 2026
Santa Clara United States
Engineering / R&D
Santa Clara, CA, USA
7 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 57% engineering 200-500 est. staff $207k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Security, Product
seen since Dec 2025 careers board, job postings
Sydney Australia
Engineering / R&D
Remote, Australia
3 open roles 33% engineering 33% remote 10-50 est. staff $250k Avg Salary
hires for DevOps, Sales, Solutions
seen since Dec 2024 careers board, job postings
London United Kingdom
Sales office
Remote, UK
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $63k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Solutions
seen since Oct 2025 careers board, job postings
Seattle United States
Bellevue, WA, USA
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff $180k Avg Salary
hires for Product
seen since Oct 2024 job postings
Bellevue United States
Regional office
Bellevue, WA, USA
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff $180k Avg Salary
hires for Product
seen since Oct 2024 careers board
Bengaluru India
Regional office
Bangalore, India
careers board
Singapore Singapore
Regional office
Singapore
careers board

Jobs

$125k – $250k per year • Remote (Australia) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Sydney
Python
Apache Kafka
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
OpenTelemetry
Datadog
Prometheus
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
Grafana
Platform Engineering
Incident Management
SLI/SLO/SLA
Apply
$80k – $180k per year • Remote (Europe, UTC+0 – UTC+1 hours) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp
Java
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
AI Agents
Agentic Workflows
Apply
$180k – $240k per year • In office • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Santa Clara
Python
Java
AI Agents
LLM
LLM Guardrails
Agentic Workflows
DevOps
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
IAM
Cybersecurity
ISO 27001
SOC 2
FedRAMP
Apply
$180k – $240k per year • In office • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Santa Clara
JavaScript
Java
Spring Boot
AI/ML
Cursor
AI Agents
LLM
Agentic Workflows
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
Recharts
DevOps
Platform Engineering
Apply
$180k – $240k per year • In office • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Santa Clara
Go
Java
C++
Spring Boot
AI/ML
AI Agents
LLM
LLM Guardrails
Agentic Workflows
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Platform Engineering
SLI/SLO/SLA
Apply
$160k – $200k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp
Java
Apache Kafka
Apply
$200k – $260k per year • In office • Full-Time • Santa Clara
Java
Spring Boot
Databases
RabbitMQ
Apache Kafka
Frontend
GraphQL
DevOps
Rest API
gRPC
GCP
Azure
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Apply
$150k – $180k per year • In office • Cupertino • Santa Clara
Apply
≈ $93k – $213k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Sydney
Apply
≈ $83k – $190k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • London
Python
JavaScript
Java
Node JS
AI Agents
Agentic Workflows
DevOps
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Apply
$150k – $180k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • Seattle • Bellevue
A/B Testing
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Financials

Total raised
$80M
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series B 2026 $60M Details
Series A 2024 $20M Details