Engineering Manager – Real Time Analytics

Orb; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental & vision

Unlimited PTO

401k

Parental leave

Commuter stipend

Catered lunches

Job summary

Orb is seeking an engineering manager for the Entitlements & Spend Platform team to lead engineers building the runtime layer between Orb’s billing engine and customer workflows, including alerting, spend controls, entitlement checks, and usage analytics.

You’ll shape technical direction, collaborate with product/design, own architecture decisions, and ensure the surface API is correct and efficient for customers to act on real-time spend and entitlements.

Qualifications

• You have 6+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years in an engineering manager or tech-lead role.
• You have deep knowledge of distributed systems, data modeling, and system architecture.
• You have a track record of growing engineers and maintaining high technical standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Entitlements & Spend Platform engineering team, setting technical direction and roadmap.
• Collaborate with Product and Design to align engineering with customer and business needs.
• Oversee architecture reviews, manage technical debt, and ensure reliable, low-latency systems.
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive team culture and mentor engineers.

Skills

Distributed systems

Data modeling

System architecture

Engineering leadership

People development

Cross-functional collaboration

Product discovery alignment

Tools

Typescript

React

Tailwind CSS

Python

PostgreSQL

Apache Druid

ClickHouse

Kafka

Spark Streaming

AWS

Job description

• As the engineering manager for the Entitlements & Spend Platform team, you’ll lead the engineers building the runtime layer between Orb’s billing engine and the workflows customers build on top of it: alerting, spend controls, entitlement checks, and usage analytics
• This is where billing state becomes something customers can act on in real time: knowing what’s been consumed, what’s allowed, and what should happen next, both as reactive alerts the moment a limit is crossed and as live, on-demand reads of balance and entitlement state
• Because it’s computed against Orb’s actual pricing, credits, and commits, customers can put it directly in the critical path of their own spend and access decisions
• This is a foundational team. You’ll set its technical direction, shape its roadmap alongside your product and design partners, and define the interfaces the rest of Orb builds against
• The work sits squarely at the intersection of infrastructure and product: real systems engineering where correctness and latency are non-negotiable, paired with a customer-facing surface where API design and getting the primitives right matter just as much
• Own the success and growth of the engineers on your team — run regular 1:1s, give consistent and actionable feedback, tailor projects to each person’s development, and onboard new engineers with the technical and product context they need
• Hold the bar on technical decisions, reviewing architecture and design docs and critical code with an eye to long-term maintainability; proactively manage technical debt and keep defect rates low while balancing speed and quality
• Advocate for developer experience and a high standard of API design across the team’s surface
• Drive scoping, costing, and estimation, and own the accuracy of those estimates; set clear expectations, manage cross-functional communication, and elevate risks early so the team delivers on time
• Lead high-quality QA, with particular attention to the correctness and completeness this domain demands. Customers trust these numbers
• Cultivate a collaborative, inclusive team culture, bringing PM into architectural discussions early so user and business implications surface before code does, and resolving the interpersonal or systemic issues that get in the team’s way
• Partner closely with Product and Design and contribute directly to product discovery and strategy, making sure engineering insight shapes the roadmap, and that the decisions you advocate for represent the customer’s perspective, not just the system’s constraints
• 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

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

You’re comfortable navigating ambiguity and enjoy establishing a team’s foundations: bringing clarity, structure, and execution rigor to a high-leverage, still-forming domainYou partner naturally with Product and Design, and you advocate for the customer’s perspective, not just the technical constraints of the systemYou have 6+ years of experience in software engineering, with 2+ years as an engineering manager or tech lead manager equivalentYou have a deep technical understanding of distributed systems, data modeling, and system architecture, ideally with exposure to real-time or low-latency systemsYou have a track record of growing engineers and holding a high bar for technical excellence