About the role:As a senior engineer on our platform team, you'll build the platform that lets Orb's engineers - and, increasingly, AI agents - ship quickly and safely. That spans two layers: the infrastructure and developer platform (CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, build systems, developer sandboxes and preview environments, and the observability that keeps our on-call humane), and the application platform - the framework primitives and abstractions that let product engineers build quickly and with high quality. This is a founding, high-autonomy role on a small and growing team, with room to shape both the technical direction and how AI-assisted development works at Orb.
In this role you will:- Own and evolve our developer platform - CI/CD (including safe, progressive delivery), infrastructure-as-code, and the build system across a large multi-service codebase
- Build the application-platform primitives - frameworks, abstractions, and paved paths - that let product engineers ship quickly and with high quality
- Build tooling that lets engineers and AI agents develop against production-like environments quickly and safely: sandboxes, preview environments, and fast feedback loops
- Improve developer-facing observability and on-call health: better signal, fewer pages, faster diagnosis
- Push forward our investment in AI-assisted, agent-driven development - the primitives that make it effective and safe
- Partner with security to make our infrastructure and workflows safe by default
About you:- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, including owning a developer or application platform (or core infrastructure) at meaningful scale
- Deep hands-on experience with AWS, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar), containers, and CI/CD
- You've built platforms other engineers rely on, and you care about their reliability and day-to-day experience
- You take open-ended, ambiguous problems, define them yourself, and drive multi-quarter initiatives to completion with minimal oversight
- Excited about AI-assisted and agent-driven development, and want to help define what it looks like in a real engineering organization
Orb's Tech Stack:At Orb, we believe great engineers can learn any stack, so you do not need experience with these specific tools, and we encourage you to apply regardless.
- 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
