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OrbOrbSan Francisco, CA

Software Engineer, Infrastructure - San Francisco HQ

Senior infrastructure engineer focused on building reliable, scalable systems for event ingestion, APIs, and billing. Requires 5+ years software engineering experience with 4+ years in infrastructure, strong debugging skills, and mentoring ability.

170k – 240k
Hybrid5+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

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:

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
  • 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

PythonPostgresApache DruidClickHouseKafkaSpark StreamingAWSTypeScriptReactKubernetes

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