Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure - San Francisco HQ

Orb
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 250,000 - 367,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 9+ yearsSkills: ["Reliability focus","Troubleshooting","Debugging","Performance optimization","Mentoring"]

Own the infrastructure that keeps Orb’s revenue platform reliable and fast, from event ingestion and API services to alerting and invoicing. Lead resiliency efforts like recovery mechanisms, tenant isolation, and load spike handling, while improving observability and operability. Build performance-critical, user-facing infrastructure and plan scaling initiatives for rapid customer growth, partnering across engineering and mentoring peers on best practices.

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Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure - San Francisco HQ

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Job Summary

Own the infrastructure that keeps Orb’s revenue platform reliable and fast, from event ingestion and API services to alerting and invoicing. Lead resiliency efforts like recovery mechanisms, tenant isolation, and load spike handling, while improving observability and operability. Build performance-critical, user-facing infrastructure and plan scaling initiatives for rapid customer growth, partnering across engineering and mentoring peers on best practices.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead infrastructure resiliency efforts including recovery mechanisms, tenant isolation, and load spike handling
  • •Improve observability and operability of systems
  • •Build performance-critical, user-facing infrastructure such as real-time event processing
  • •Plan scaling initiatives to support large customer growth
  • •Partner with other engineering teams to build reliable product features

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 250,000 - 367,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kPaid LeaveLearning BudgetEquityMeal AllowanceCommuter Benefits

Key Requirements

  • •9+ years of software engineering experience with 2+ years in the infrastructure domain
  • •Strong ability to think through edge cases, failure modes, and bottlenecks
  • •Proven knack for investigating and debugging tricky errors and performance issues
  • •Experience building scalable infrastructure for a high-growth product
  • •Ability to mentor fellow engineers on best practices for observability, rollouts, and risk mitigation
Experience:9+ years
Skills:Reliability focusTroubleshootingDebuggingPerformance optimizationMentoring
Tech Stack:TypeScriptReactTailwind CSSPythonPostgreSQLClickhouseKafkaSpark StreamingAWS

Company Brief

Orb
Orb provides developer-first billing and revenue infrastructure for modern AI and software companies, enabling usage-based, subscription, token-based, and hybrid pricing with metering, invoicing, and finance integrations.
Industry: SaaS
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Revenue: USD 1M to 5M
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2021
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