# Lead Technical Recruiter at Orkes

Lead Technical Recruiter at Orkes in Santa Clara, CA. Remote, paying $120–$140k. Posted August 19, 2026.

- Company: Orkes
- Location: Santa Clara, CA
- Workplace: Remote
- Pay: $120–$140k
- Experience: 6+ years
- Posted: 2026-08-19
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/orkes/jobs/5396233008
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/lead-technical-recruiter-orkes-pz7k9t

## Requirements

- 6+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience
- Experience recruiting for venture-backed startups or high-growth SaaS companies
- Proven success hiring Software Engineers, Platform Engineers, Infrastructure Engineers, and Engineering Leaders
- Experience recruiting Go-to-Market talent, including Enterprise Account Executives and technical customer-facing roles
- Strong sourcing expertise using LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, referrals, networking, and creative outbound strategies
- Experience hiring senior technical talent including Staff and Principal Engineers
- Excellent stakeholder management and hiring manager partnership skills
- Strong understanding of today's technical hiring landscape

## Description

### **Lead Technical Recruiter, Engineering & GTMLocation:** 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 for future hiring needs

### **Partner with Hiring Leaders**

- Advise hiring managers on market trends, compensation, and candidate availability

- Run effective intake meetings and develop recruiting strategies for each search

- Drive interview processes and deliver an exceptional candidate experience

### **Improve Recruiting Operations**

- Manage candidate pipelines and ATS workflows

- Continuously improve recruiting processes, reporting, and hiring efficiency

- Partner with agencies when needed while prioritizing internally sourced talent

- Help establish scalable recruiting best practices as the company grows

### **What We're Looking For**

- 6+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience

- Experience recruiting for venture-backed startups or high-growth SaaS companies

- Proven success hiring Software Engineers, Platform Engineers, Infrastructure Engineers, and Engineering Leaders

- Experience recruiting Go-to-Market talent, including Enterprise Account Executives and technical customer-facing roles

- Strong sourcing expertise using LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, referrals, networking, and creative outbound strategies

- Experience hiring senior technical talent including Staff and Principal Engineers

- Excellent stakeholder management and hiring manager partnership skills

- Strong understanding of today's technical hiring landscape

### **Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience recruiting in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, AI, developer tools, or enterprise software

- Experience supporting organizations scaling from early-stage startup through rapid growth

- Familiarity with engineering career leveling and technical interview processes

### **Who You Are**

- You're naturally curious and enjoy learning new technologies.

- You thrive in fast-paced startup environments where priorities evolve quickly.

- You're highly organized and know how to manage multiple searches simultaneously.

- You enjoy partnering with hiring managers and influencing hiring decisions.

- You're passionate about finding exceptional talent before competitors do.

- You believe sourcing is a competitive advantage, not simply posting jobs.

### **Why Orkes**

- Join a rapidly growing developer-first infrastructure company.

- Help build world-class engineering and GTM organizations from the ground up.

- Work directly with founders and executive leadership.

- High ownership, high visibility, and significant career growth.

- Competitive salary, equity, and benefits

### **Compensation:**

$120-140k/year + stock options