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Lead Technical Recruiter

🏢 Orkes · 📍 Santa Clara, CA · 💼 onsite
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Position Summary & Responsibilities

Lead Technical Recruiter, Engineering & GTM

Location: Santa Clara, CA (3-5 days/week onsite)

About Orkes

Orkes is building the modern workflow orchestration platform for distributed applications, helping engineering teams simplify complex systems, automate workflows, and build reliable cloud-native applications at scale. Built on the open-source Conductor project, we're growing rapidly and scaling a world-class engineering organization alongside our go-to-market teams.

We're looking for an experienced Lead Technical Recruiter to help us attract exceptional technical and commercial talent during our next stage of growth.

The Opportunity

As our  Lead Technical Recruiter, you'll partner closely with our HR Manager and executive leadership to build the teams that will shape the future of Orkes.

This is a highly strategic, hands-on recruiting role. You'll own full-cycle recruiting for technical and go-to-market hiring while helping establish scalable recruiting practices for a fast-growing startup.

We're looking for someone who loves sourcing difficult-to-find talent, understands competitive hiring markets, and enjoys partnering directly with hiring managers to build exceptional teams.

What You'll Do

Own Technical Recruiting

  • Lead full-cycle recruiting for Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, Solutions Engineering, Product, and Technical Leadership roles
  • Recruit senior-level individual contributors, including Senior, Staff, and Principal Engineers
  • Build pipelines for difficult-to-fill technical positions through proactive sourcing and networking

Support GTM Hiring

  • Recruit for strategic Go-to-Market positions including:
    • Enterprise Account Executives
    • Sales Engineers
    • Customer Success
    • Solutions Architects
    • Technical Support Leadership

Build Talent Pipelines

  • Develop proactive sourcing strategies rather than relying solely on inbound applicants
  • Build relationships with passive candidates across engineering and enterprise software communities
  • Maintain healthy talent pipelines
🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Orkes Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Interviewers rigorously test your mastery of distributed systems, microservices orchestration, and open-source ecosystem contributions, particularly around Netflix Conductor.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):
  • 1. Treating workflow orchestration as a simple cron job or basic task queue without grasping state management complexities.
  • 2. Lack of familiarity with cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, and scalable microservices patterns.
  • 3. Giving vague, high-level architectural answers when pressed for low-level implementation details.
✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I design bulletproof microservices orchestration layers that tame complex distributed systems and scale reliably under extreme production loads.

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