Senior Platform Engineer, Orb
$195-265k
+ Equity
3 days a week in office
Purpose-built platform for flexible pricing models
Be an early applicant
Purpose-built platform for flexible pricing models
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$195-265k
+ Equity
3 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To provide every business with the infrastructure to unlock their revenue.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
Orb founders Morales and Grover worked together as engineering leaders at Asana for five years. During their time at the company, they witnessed a plethora of changes to pricing and packaging. The major changes were a burden not only for the financing team but for the engineers themselves.
Realising they wanted more flexibility over how software-as-a-service (SaaS) products are billed and monetised, the pair developed Orb. It's a cloud-based software platform helping businesses create and manage pricing models, with a specific focus on helping businesses that are seeking flexible pricing options for their customers, such as subscription-based services or pay-as-you-go models.
Orb is backed by a number of investment organisations as well as founders and executives at the forefront of enterprise software. It expanded its team in 2023 and, in 2024, enjoyed $24 million in funding to accelerate its mission. With an acquisition by leading global payments platform Adyen in the works, it's now well-equipped to fulfil its vision of leveraging software so companies can be at their most effective.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2024
$25m
SERIES B
Mar 2023
$14m
SERIES A
Total funding: $44m
Company benefits
- Medical insurance - 100% coverage for you and dependents
- Dental, vision, and life insurance
- Unlimited PTO, with 15 days minimum encouraged
- 401k plan
- 16-week paid parental leave with equity vesting
- Commuter stipend
- Catered lunches in the office
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Alvaro Morales
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Software Engineer and Engineering Manager at Asana. Graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Master in Computer Science.
Kshitij Grover
(Co-Founder)Began their career as a Software Engineer Intern at Apple and Facebook before becoming a Software Engineer at Asana.
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