Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure - San Francisco HQ
Join Orb as a Staff Software Engineer to lead infrastructure resiliency efforts and build scalable systems for a high-growth product.
Posted by employer 2 days ago
First seen on Joblaze 13 hours ago
Last verified on the company career page 13 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Lead infrastructure resiliency efforts
- Improve observability and operability of systems
- Build performance-critical infrastructure
- Plan scaling initiatives
- Partner with engineering teams
Must have
- 9+ years of experience in software engineering
- 2+ years in the infrastructure domain
Practical constraints
- In office 3 days/week for San Francisco Bay Area residents
- Join in person 1x per quarter for remote roles
Requirements
- Experience
- 9+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Staff Software Engineer will focus on enhancing the reliability of Orb's infrastructure, ensuring that critical systems remain operational to prevent revenue loss for customers. Key skills include experience in building scalable infrastructure and a strong background in debugging complex performance issues, with a minimum of nine years in software engineering and two years specifically in infrastructure. This position is well-suited for seasoned engineers who enjoy mentoring and collaborating with peers to implement best practices. Orb fosters a hybrid work culture that emphasizes teamwork and customer-centric values.
Joblaze insights
Quick facts
- Is the Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure - San Francisco HQ role remote?
- It's hybrid — Orb expects some on-site time in San Francisco, United States.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 9 years of relevant experience for this Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure - San Francisco HQ role.
- Where is the role based?
- Orb is hiring for this position in San Francisco, United States.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, ClickHouse, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Python, Spark-streaming.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Orb targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure - San Francisco HQ role at Orb.
From the original posting
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
401k plan
16-week paid parental leave with equity vesting
Commuter stipend
Catered lunches in the office
Annual learning & development stipend
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