# Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Remote (USA)
**Company:** [Orb](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/orb)
**Location:** Remote
**Salary:** $170K-$240K
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, Postgres, Kafka, Spark Streaming, AWS, Apache Druid, ClickHouse, Kubernetes, Observability, Infrastructure As Code
**Posted:** 2025-12-19
> Senior infrastructure engineer focused on building reliable, scalable systems for billing platform, handling event ingestion, APIs, alerting, and scaling. Requires 5+ years software engineering experience with 4+ years in infrastructure.
## Job Description
## 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
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