Staff Software Engineer, Real Time Analytics

Responsibilities

• Own a product surface end to end — from customer conversations and product design through API design, implementation, and rollout.
• Design and ship alerting and analytics that are granular, flexible, and fast enough to carry contractual latency SLAs.
• Build the entitlement and spend-control primitives (credit balances, allocations, usage-percentage alerts, rate limits) that enforce against Orb's real billing state in real time.
• Shape the roadmap, primitives, and interfaces other teams build against — foundational decisions that are still open.
• Collaborate across PM, design, sales, and customer success, and work directly with enterprise and AI customers to turn their pain points into what we build.

Requirements

• 9+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of owning products or systems end to end.
• Energized by ambiguity and ownership — you want a say in what gets built, not just how.
• Strong product instincts and genuine customer empathy; you like being close to customers and to the business impact of your work (this is revenue-adjacent, and people trust these numbers).
• Comfortable designing APIs and data models that other teams and customers depend on.
• Enough systems depth to reason clearly about real-time and low-latency tradeoffs — this team leans product, but the engineering is real.
• Attention to detail across API design, product UX, and everything in between.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with real-time analytics, alerting systems, entitlements, or spend controls.
• Familiarity with Orb’s tech stack (though not required): TypeScript, React, Tailwind CSS, Python, PostgreSQL, Apache Druid, ClickHouse, Kafka, Spark Streaming, AWS.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary range: $195,000 - $265,000 (for San Francisco Bay Area).
• 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.