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title: "Lead Technical Recruiter"
company: "Orkes"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/orkes"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/orkes-lead-technical-recruiter-1cd16ad2-11d8-48c4-93d3-30b886cfac85"
apply_url: "https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/orkes/jobs/5396233008"
workplace: onsite
location: "Santa Clara, CA"
employment_type: unspecified
seniority: lead
role: people
region: united-states
date_posted: 2026-08-19T21:09:45.000Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-08-31T09:00:47.276Z
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# Lead Technical Recruiter

**Orkes** — Santa Clara, CA

Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/orkes/jobs/5396233008

## About the role

#### 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 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

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