Hybrid Real-Time Billing Platform Engineer

Orb; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

One Medical

Unlimited PTO + extra week

401k plan

Parental leave with equity

Commuter stipend

Catered lunches

Learning stipend

Equity stock options

Job summary

Orb is building a revenue design platform that enables real-time visibility into what customers have consumed and what is allowed, with live balance and entitlement state. This role focuses on the runtime layer for alerts, spend controls, and usage analytics, and sits at the intersection of infrastructure and product.

You will help set the direction for primitives and interfaces used by other teams, collaborating across PM, design, sales, and enterprise customers to address their pain points and

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience with end-to-end ownership.
• Strong product instincts and customer empathy; you like being close to customers and the business impact of your work.
• 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.
• Attention to detail across API design, product UX, and everything in between.

Responsibilities

• Own a product surface end to end — from conversations to API design, implementation, and rollout.
• Design and ship alerting and analytics that are granular, flexible, and fast to meet SLAs.
• Build entitlement and spend-control primitives (balances, allocations, usage alerts) that reflect real billing state in real time.
• Shape the roadmap, primitives, and interfaces other teams build against.
• Collaborate with PM, design, sales, and customer success, turning customer pain points into what we build.

Skills

API design

Real-time systems

Low latency

Customer empathy

Ownership

Tools

PostgreSQL

Apache Druid

Clickhouse

Kafka

Spark Streaming

AWS

Typescript

React

Tailwind CSS

Python

Job description

Orb is building a revenue design platform that enables real-time visibility into what customers have consumed and what is allowed, with live balance and entitlement state. This role focuses on the runtime layer for alerts, spend controls, and usage analytics, and sits at the intersection of infrastructure and product.

You will help set the direction for primitives and interfaces used by other teams, collaborating across PM, design, sales, and enterprise customers to address their pain points and