Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure - San Francisco HQ

Orb

$150K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 9+ years in software engineering, with 2+ years in infrastructure
  • Deep understanding of edge cases, failure modes, and bottlenecks
  • Proven skills in investigating and debugging performance issues
  • Passionate about building scalable infrastructure
  • Ability to mentor engineers on best practices

Responsibilities

  • Lead efforts to enhance infrastructure resiliency
  • Improve system observability and operability
  • Develop performance-critical infrastructure for real-time processing
  • Plan scaling strategies to accommodate customer growth
  • Collaborate with engineering teams for reliable product development
  • Share knowledge and expertise within the team

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
Full Job Description
About the role:

As a member of the infrastructure team, you'll play a key role in maintaining a high bar for reliability. Our customers depend on our systems being operational, as downtime can directly lead to lost revenue. You'll be responsible for the infrastructure powering the entire product, from event ingestion, API services, alerting, invoicing, and everything in between.

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 9+ years of experience in software engineering, and you've worked in in the infrastructure domain for 2+ years


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 + 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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