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Senior Platform Engineer

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San Francisco, CAJob$140–220K/yrPosted todayStill listed today

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Compensation
$140–220K/yr
Location
San Francisco, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Orb is hiring a senior platform engineer to build and evolve the infrastructure and application platforms that help engineers and AI agents ship quickly and safely. The role spans CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, build systems, developer sandboxes, preview environments, observability, and application-platform primitives. It is a founding, high-autonomy position with influence over technical direction and AI-assisted development.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Software Engineering, nice to haveAmazon Web Services, nice to haveInfrastructure as Code (IaC), nice to haveTerraform, nice to haveContainerization, nice to haveDevOps, nice to haveTypeScript, nice to haveReact.js, nice to haveTailwind CSS, nice to havePython (Programming Language), nice to havePostgreSQL, nice to haveApache Druid, nice to haveApache Kafka, nice to haveSpark Streaming, nice to haveDeveloper Platform Ownership, requiredApplication Platform Ownership, requiredAWS, requiredContainers, requiredCI/CD, requiredPlatform Reliability, nice to haveAmbiguous Problem Solving, nice to haveInitiative Leadership, nice to haveAI-Assisted Development, nice to haveAgent-Driven Development, nice to have

Qualifications

5+ Years Software Engineering Experience, required

Full 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. 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: As a senior engineer on our platform team, you'll build the platform that lets Orb's engineers — and, increasingly, AI agents — ship quickly and safely. That spans two layers: the infrastructure and developer platform (CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, build systems, developer sandboxes and preview environments, and the observability that keeps our on-call humane), and the application platform — the framework primitives and abstractions that let product engineers build quickly and with high quality. This is a founding, high-autonomy role on a small and growing team, with room to shape both the technical direction and how AI-assisted development works at Orb. In this role you will:

  • Own and evolve our developer platform — CI/CD (including safe, progressive delivery), infrastructure-as-code, and the build system across a large multi-service codebase

  • Build the application-platform primitives — frameworks, abstractions, and paved paths — that let product engineers ship quickly and with high quality

  • Build tooling that lets engineers and AI agents develop against production-like environments quickly and safely: sandboxes, preview environments, and fast feedback loops

  • Improve developer-facing observability and on-call health: better signal, fewer pages, faster diagnosis

  • Push forward our investment in AI-assisted, agent-driven development — the primitives that make it effective and safe

  • Partner with security to make our infrastructure and workflows safe by default

About you:

  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering, including owning a developer or application platform (or core infrastructure) at meaningful scale

  • Deep hands-on experience with AWS, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar), containers, and CI/CD

  • You've built platforms other engineers rely on, and you care about their reliability and day-to-day experience

  • You take open-ended, ambiguous problems, define them yourself, and drive multi-quarter initiatives to completion with minimal oversight

  • Excited about AI-assisted and agent-driven development, and want to help define what it looks like in a real engineering organization

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

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. Offers Equity

Compensation $140,000—$220,000 USD

How this job compares

Set against the 3,833 open Platform Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$140–220K/yr
  • California median$175–262K/yr636 salary ranges
  • US median$122–220K/yr3,152 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $180K, is 18% below the California median midpoint ($220K) — in the lowest quarter of Platform Engineer salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 790 open Platform Engineer jobs in California and 3,833 across the US. 11% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Platform Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (3,138 postings).
Education
854 of the 3,833 open Platform Engineer jobs (22%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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