Senior Infrastructure Engineer — Hybrid, Observability & Scale

Orb Staging; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent medical, dental, and vision

Unlimited PTO and holiday leave

401k plan

Equity stock options

Job summary

Orb Staging is seeking a senior infrastructure engineer to own reliability and performance for the product. You will help ensure systems stay operational, with a focus on recovery, observability, and scalable real-time processing.

You will mentor peers and collaborate with multiple engineering teams to implement robust features, manage growth, and reduce downtime across services. A hybrid in-office schedule is available for SF Bay Area/NYC teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, and 4+ years in infrastructure.
• Strong debugging and performance troubleshooting skills.
• Experience building scalable infrastructure for a high-growth product.

Responsibilities

• Lead infrastructure resiliency efforts – recovery mechanisms, tenant isolation, load spike handling, etc.
• Improve observability and operability of our systems.
• Build performance‑critical, user‑facing infrastructure (e.g., real‑time event processing).
• Plan scaling initiatives to handle large customer growth.
• Partner with other engineering teams to ensure we build reliable product features.
• Learn from a talented peer group, and share your expertise.

Skills

Edge case analysis

Debugging performance issues

Mentoring engineers

Scalability mindset

Tools

Python

PostgreSQL

Kafka

AWS

Job description

Orb Staging is seeking a senior infrastructure engineer to own reliability and performance for the product. You will help ensure systems stay operational, with a focus on recovery, observability, and scalable real-time processing.

You will mentor peers and collaborate with multiple engineering teams to implement robust features, manage growth, and reduce downtime across services. A hybrid in-office schedule is available for SF Bay Area/NYC teams.