VP of Engineering- San Francisco HQ

Orb Staging; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

One Medical membership

Unlimited PTO

Holiday time off

401k plan

Parental leave

Equity stock options

Commuter stipend

Catered lunches

Learning stipend

Job summary

Orb is seeking a Senior Engineering Leader to guide a ~30-person team responsible for critical billing and revenue infrastructure. You will set technical strategy, ensure real-time correctness at scale, and partner with GTM and Product to drive monetization. This role requires scrappy execution, ownership, and a track record of building durable leadership across offices.

You will work in a hybrid environment with in-person collaboration several days a week and international travel as needed.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in engineering with leadership of engineering organizations.
• Infra- or platform-heavy background with distributed systems, data, and scale.
• Experience scaling teams and systems through growth and startup phases.
• Genuinely focused on billing and monetization; revenue infrastructure is key.
• Proven people leader who coached managers across multiple offices.
• Strong cross-functional partner with product and GTM to translate strategy into results.
• Bias toward lightweight, high-leverage processes; travel required.

Responsibilities

• Coach and grow engineering managers and senior ICs with clear growth paths.
• Build leadership bench and retention strategy as the team expands to multiple offices.
• Set and articulate technical strategy for correctness and scalability.
• Partner cross-functionally with GTM and Product to shape product and monetization.
• Establish foundations for growth with lightweight, scalable processes.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Distributed systems

Data infrastructure

Monetization domain

Cross-functional partnering

People leadership

Technical strategy

Tools

PostgreSQL

Apache Druid

Clickhouse

Kafka

Spark Streaming

Python

Typescript

React

Tailwind CSS

AWS

Job description

About Orb:
We’re a team that cares deeply about the work, the people we do it with, and the customers we do it for. Everyone at Orb has real ownership over their work, direct access to customers, and a voice in how the company grows. We’re building the revenue design platform that helps teams automate billing, evolve pricing, and grow revenue with confidence.

Looking ahead, joining forces with Adyen expands what we can build and raises the ceiling on the problems we get to solve for customers. The challenges are uniquely interesting, and you’ll be surrounded by thoughtful, ambitious people who move fast and hold a high bar.

For San Francisco Bay Area, New York, and Amsterdam 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, attention to detail, and go further together are at the core of everything we do.

About the role:

This is a rare moment to lead engineering at Orb. As part of Adyen, we're taking Orb toward a massive revenue line, with Adyen's global sales org behind our distribution. You get the ambition and reach of a platform business, plus the scrappiness, ownership, and speed of an early‑stage team.

You’ll lead a ~30 person engineering team building infrastructure where correctness and scale aren't nice‑to‑haves. They're the product. Billing is unforgiving: every number has to be right, in real time, at volume. We're looking for a leader who's energized by the monetization and billing domain. Someone who wants to build the technical and process foundations for the next phase of growth, and who’s ready to roll up their sleeves to do it.

In this role you will:

• Coach and grow our engineering managers and senior ICs via hands‑on mentorship, clear growth paths, and real career development for the people building Orb.
• Build our engineering leadership bench and own talent and retention strategy as the team grows and expands to multiple offices.
• Set and clearly articulate technical strategy by holding your own in deep technical conversations, and raising the bar on how we design systems for correctness and scale.
• Partner cross‑functionally with GTM and our VP of Product to shape product, competitive, and monetization strategy.
• Establish the technical and process foundations for Orb's next stage of growth: lightweight, high‑leverage, and built to scale without slowing the team down.

About you:

• 10+ years in engineering with several years leading engineering organizations, ideally at infrastructure, platform, or developer‑tools companies.
• Infra- or platform-heavy technical background, with real depth in distributed systems, data, and designing for correctness and scale.
• You’ve scaled teams and systems through meaningful growth and you’re excited to re‑calibrate into scrappy, early‑stage mode rather than run a heavy process.
• Genuinely leaned into billing and monetization. Usage‑based pricing and revenue infrastructure is a domain you find interesting and want to go deep on — this is central to the role.
• A proven people leader who has coached managers, developed senior ICs, and built durable leadership benches, ideally across multiple offices.
• A strong cross‑functional partner who works naturally with product and go‑to‑market to turn technical strategy into business results.
• Bias toward lightweight, high‑leverage processes; you’ll build foundations that scale without bureaucracy.
• Some domestic and international travel required.

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.