# Staff Software Engineer, Real Time Analytics

**Company:** [Orb](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/orb)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $195k – $265k/yr
**Experience:** 9+ years
**Skills:** API Design, Real-Time Systems, Python, Postgres, apache druid, ClickHouse, Kafka, spark streaming, AWS, TypeScript, React
**Posted:** 2026-07-20

> Build and own real-time analytics, alerting, entitlement, and spend control primitives for Orb's usage-based billing platform. Requires 9+ years experience owning systems end-to-end, strong product instincts, customer empathy, and comfort with low-latency tradeoffs and API design.

## Job Description

## 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.

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