Senior Software Engineer, Pricing Lifecycle- San Francisco HQ

Orb Staging; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

One Medical membership

Unlimited PTO

401k plan

Parental leave (equity vesting)

Commuter stipend

Catered lunches

Job summary

Orb is building a revenue design platform to help teams automate billing, pricing, and revenue recognition at scale. As an early engineer, you will design core pricing lifecycle primitives, evolve data models, and scale real-time ingestion for large deployments.

You will collaborate cross-functionally with PM, design, sales, and customer success to deliver value. You will work closely with customers to understand pain points and shape the product roadmap, while contributing to a high-performing

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Interest in building scalable, reliable billing software.
• Comfort with customer collaboration to shape roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain core pricing lifecycle primitives with a focus on extensibility and ease of use.
• Evolve the product data model to balance complexity and clarity.
• Scale real-time ingestion and query systems for large, high‑performance deployments.
• Collaborate cross-functionally (PM, design, sales, customer success) to shape strategy and deliver value.
• Learn from and contribute to a highly skilled team.

Skills

Software engineering

Full‑stack across the stack

Customer focus

Tools

Typescript

React

Tailwind CSS

Python

PostgreSQL

Apache Druid

ClickHouse

Kafka

Spark Streaming

AWS

Job description

About Orb:

Orb is redefining what billing software can be, turning one of the most complex parts of running a business into a strategic driver of growth. We're building the revenue design platform that helps teams automate billing, evolve pricing, and grow revenue with confidence. We work with companies like Vercel, Pinecone, Perplexity, and Replit to help them price smarter, bill accurately, and capture more of the revenue they've earned.

Backed by $44.1M in funding from top investors like Mayfield, Menlo Ventures, and Greylock, we're a team that moves fast, holds itself to high standards, and is serious about changing how companies grow.

For SF Bay Area and NYC residents, we've built a hybrid work culture where we are in office 3 days/week. For remote roles, we ask you to join us in person 1x per quarter. Our values, customer centricity, minutes matter, run with it, and attention to detail are at the core of everything we do.

About the role:

As an early engineer at Orb, you’ll help to build the technical foundations of a critical product that needs to be reliable and accurate at scale. You’ll work closely with our customers to understand pain points in their business processes, and help incorporate those insights into our product roadmap. Our customers rely on Orb to transform an inherently complex domain (billing, from data ingestion to subscription management and revenue recognition) into an efficient, powerful, and easy-to-use experience.

In this role you will:

• Design and maintain core pricing lifecycle primitives with a focus on extensibility and ease of use
• Evolve the product data model to balance complexity and clarity
• Scale real-time ingestion and query systems for large, high-performance deployments
• Collaborate cross-functionally (PM, design, sales, customer success) to shape strategy and deliver value
• Learn from and contribute to a highly skilled team

About you:

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering
• Enthusiastic about working on a broad range of technical challenges across the stack
• Attention to detail in designing a product with deep user empathy (in visual UX, API design, and everything in between)
• Excited to engage with customers directly to shape the Orb product
• Based in the San Francisco Bay Area or willing to relocate (with support from Orb)

Orb’s Tech Stack:

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:

• Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance
• One Medical membership
• Unlimited PTO plus an additional week off between Christmas and New Year’s
• 401k plan
• 16-week paid parental leave with equity vesting
• Commuter stipend
• Catered lunches in the office
• Annual learning & development stipend
• Meaningful equity in the form of stock options

Equal Opportunity Employer

We work with each other day in and day out, and strongly believe that building a diverse and inclusive team is key to our long‑term goals and success as a company. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.