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OrbOrbSan Francisco, CA

Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer building developer and application platforms at Orb, including CI/CD, IaC, sandboxes, preview environments, observability, and AI-assisted development tooling. Requires 5+ years owning platforms at scale with deep AWS, Terraform, containers, and CI/CD experience.

195k – 265k
Hybrid5+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve our developer platform — CI/CD (including safe, progressive delivery), infrastructure-as-code, and the build system across a large multi-service codebase.
  • Build the application-platform primitives — frameworks, abstractions, and paved paths — that let product engineers ship quickly and with high quality.
  • Build tooling that lets engineers and AI agents develop against production-like environments quickly and safely: sandboxes, preview environments, and fast feedback loops.
  • Improve developer-facing observability and on-call health: better signal, fewer pages, faster diagnosis.
  • Push forward our investment in AI-assisted, agent-driven development — the primitives that make it effective and safe.
  • Partner with security to make our infrastructure and workflows safe by default.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering, including owning a developer or application platform (or core infrastructure) at meaningful scale.
  • Deep hands-on experience with AWS, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar), containers, and CI/CD.
  • You've built platforms other engineers rely on, and you care about their reliability and day-to-day experience.
  • You take open-ended, ambiguous problems, define them yourself, and drive multi-quarter initiatives to completion with minimal oversight.
  • Excited about AI-assisted and agent-driven development, and want to help define what it looks like in a real engineering organization.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience with AI-assisted and agent-driven development.

Compensation and 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.

Skills

AWSTerraformCI/CDInfrastructure As CodeContainersObservabilityPython

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