Staff Software Engineer (Infrastructure)
Orb
San Francisco, United States Posted September 29, 2026
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Salary Range
$250,000 - $367,000
Job Description
Join Orb as a Staff Software Engineer (Infrastructure) and play a key role in maintaining the reliability of our systems. You will be responsible for the infrastructure powering the entire product, leading resiliency efforts, improving observability and operability, building performance-critical infrastructure, planning scaling initiatives, and partnering with other engineering teams. You will have the opportunity to learn from a talented peer group and share your expertise.
- Lead infrastructure resiliency efforts, including recovery mechanisms, tenant isolation, and load spike handling.
- Improve observability and operability of systems, and build performance-critical, user-facing infrastructure.
- Plan scaling initiatives to handle large customer growth and partner with other engineering teams to ensure reliable product features.
- You enjoy building scalable infrastructure for a high-growth product
- You have 9+ years of experience in software engineering, and you’ve worked in in the infrastructure domain for 2+ years
- You think deeply about edge cases, failure modes, bottlenecks, etc
- You can effectively mentor fellow engineers on best practices (observability, rollout strategies, risk mitigation, etc)
- You have a knack for investigating and debugging tricky errors and performance issues
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