Software Engineer, Infrastructure

About Orb:

Orb is transforming how modern AI and software companies monetize at scale. We've built the next-generation billing infrastructure that turns complex usage-based pricing into competitive advantage. Our developer-first approach powers companies like Vercel, Pinecone, and Replit, delivering real-time billing automation, lightning-fast pricing experiments, and granular revenue analytics.

Backed by $44.1M in funding from top investors like Mayfield, Menlo Ventures, and Greylock, we're a high-velocity team shipping infrastructure that's defining the future of monetization.

We work in office 3 days/week in downtown San Francisco. Our values, customer centricity, minutes matter, run with it, and attention to detail shape how we work and grow as a team.

About the role:

As a core member of the infrastructure team, you’ll play a key role in maintaining a high bar for reliability. Our customers depend on our systems being operational, as downtime can directly lead to lost revenue. You’ll be responsible for the infrastructure powering the entire product, from event ingestion, API services, alerting, invoicing, and everything in between.

In this role you will:

• Lead infrastructure resiliency efforts - recovery mechanisms, tenant isolation, load spike handling, etc

• Improve observability and operability of our systems

• Build performance-critical, user-facing infrastructure (eg. real-time event processing)

• Plan scaling initiatives to handle large customer growth

• Partner with other engineering teams to ensure we build reliable product features

• Learn from a talented peer group, and share your expertise

About you:

• You think deeply about edge cases, failure modes, bottlenecks, etc

• You have a knack for investigating and debugging tricky errors and performance issues

• You enjoy building scalable infrastructure for a high-growth product

• You can effectively mentor fellow engineers on best practices (observability, rollout strategies, risk mitigation, etc)

• You have 5+ years of experience in software engineering, and you’ve worked in in the infrastructure domain for 4+ years

Orb’s Tech Stack:

At Orb, we believe great engineers can learn any stack, so you do not need experience with these specific tools and we encourage you to apply regardless.

• Frontend: Typescript + React + Tailwind CSS

• Backend: Python

• Datastores: PostgreSQL + Apache Druid+ Clickhouse 

• Streaming Platforms: Kafka + Spark Streaming

• Cloud Platform: AWS

Benefits:

• Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance

• Unlimited PTO plus an additional week off between Christmas and New Year’s

• 401k plan

• 16-week paid parental leave with equity vesting

• Commuter stipend

• Catered lunches in the office

• Meaningful equity in the form of stock options

Equal Opportunity Employer

We work with each other day in and day out, and strongly believe that building a diverse and inclusive team is key to our long-term goals and success as a company. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.