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Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure - San Francisco HQ

Orb· Engineering
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Hybrid (HQ-San Francisco)$250k - $367kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer specializing in infrastructure, owning reliability, observability, and scalable infrastructure powering Orb’s product. Hybrid, SF HQ with in-person expectations and quarterly in-person for remote roles.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Qualifications

  • You have 9+ years of experience in software engineering, and you’ve worked in in the infrastructure domain for 2+ years
  • 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)

Skills

Required:Edge case analysis and failure mode reasoningDebugging and performance troubleshootingMentoring and technical leadership

Benefits

  • Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • One Medical membership
  • 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
  • Annual learning & development stipend
  • Meaningful equity in the form of stock options
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Orb

We built billing so you don't have to

Orb is the platform for revenue design in the AI era—powering flexible pricing, usage-based billing, and monetization strategy at scale.

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