Senior Software Engineer, Orb
Real Time Analytics
$195-265k
+ Meaningful equity in the form of stock options
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
+ Meaningful equity in the form of stock options
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
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of owning products or systems end to end
- Energized by ambiguity and ownership — you want a say in what gets built, not just how
- Strong product instincts and genuine customer empathy; you like being close to customers and to the business impact of your work (this is revenue-adjacent, and people trust these numbers)
- Comfortable designing APIs and data models that other teams and customers depend on
- Enough systems depth to reason clearly about real-time and low-latency tradeoffs — this team leans product, but the engineering is real
- Attention to detail across API design, product UX, and everything in between
- 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
What the job involves
- Every usage-based business eventually asks the same three questions in real time: what has this customer consumed, what are they entitled to, and what should happen next? This team owns the runtime layer where billing state becomes something customers can act on — alerting, spend controls, entitlement checks, and usage analytics
- This is a foundational role. Enterprise and AI customers increasingly treat entitlements, spend controls, and real-time analytics as a single problem rather than three separate features, which makes this one of the highest-leverage areas of Orb's roadmap. You'll help set the direction, the primitives, and the interfaces other teams build against
- The work sits squarely at the intersection of infrastructure and product. On one side, it's real systems engineering: alerts, balances, and entitlement checks computed against actual tiers, credits, and commits, fast and reliably enough to stand behind latency guarantees. On the other, it's a customer-facing product surface where API design, clarity, and getting the primitives right matter as much as the systems underneath. You'll spend as much time understanding what customers are trying to do as you will building the thing that does it
- You'll build the system customers rely on to know, in real time, what's been consumed, what's allowed, and what should happen next — the reactive side that alerts the moment a limit is crossed, and the proactive side that serves live balance and entitlement state on demand. Because it runs against Orb's real pricing, credits, and commits, customers can put it directly in the critical path of their own spend and access decisions — the layer they reach for as they scale
- Own a product surface end to end — from customer conversations and product design through API design, implementation, and rollout
- Design and ship alerting and analytics that are granular, flexible, and fast enough to carry contractual latency SLAs
- Build the entitlement and spend-control primitives (credit balances, allocations, usage-percentage alerts, rate limits) that enforce against Orb's real billing state in real time
- Shape the roadmap, primitives, and interfaces other teams build against — foundational decisions that are still open
- Collaborate across PM, design, sales, and customer success, and work directly with enterprise and AI customers to turn their pain points into what we build
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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