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Staff Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

Orb

Skills

Required

  • infrastructure
  • software engineering
  • edge cases
  • failure modes
  • bottlenecks

Preferred

  • observability
  • recovery mechanisms
  • tenant isolation
  • load spike handling

Join Orb as a Staff Software Engineer (Infrastructure) and play a key role in maintaining the reliability of our systems. You will be responsible for the infrastructure powering the entire product, leading resiliency efforts, improving observability and operability, building performance-critical infrastructure, planning scaling initiatives, and partnering with other engineering teams. You will have the opportunity to learn from a talented peer group and share your expertise.

Responsibilities

  • Lead infrastructure resiliency efforts, including recovery mechanisms, tenant isolation, and load spike handling.
  • Improve observability and operability of systems, and build performance-critical, user-facing infrastructure.
  • Plan scaling initiatives to handle large customer growth and partner with other engineering teams to ensure reliable product features.
  • You enjoy building scalable infrastructure for a high-growth product
  • You can effectively mentor fellow engineers on best practices (observability, rollout strategies, risk mitigation, etc)

Requirements

  • You have 9+ years of experience in software engineering, and you’ve worked in in the infrastructure domain for 2+ years
  • You think deeply about edge cases, failure modes, bottlenecks, etc
  • You have a knack for investigating and debugging tricky errors and performance issues

Pay

USD 250,000 - 367,000