Software Engineer, Real Time Analytics
Build real-time analytics, alerting, entitlements, and spend control primitives for Orb's usage-based billing platform. Own product surfaces end-to-end, from customer conversations and API design to implementation, with strong emphasis on low-latency systems and customer empathy.
About the job
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
- 3+ 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 systems, alerting, analytics, entitlements, or spend controls.
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
Python, TypeScript, React, Postgres, Apache Druid, ClickHouse, Kafka, Spark, AWS, API Design, Real-Time Systems
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