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# Senior Platform Engineer- San Francisco HQ

- **Company:** Orb LLC
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $195,000.0 - $265,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Apache HTTP Server, Computing Platforms, Continuous Integration, Data Stores, PostgreSQL, Software Engineering, Data Streaming, TypeScript, Tailwind, ReactJS, Apache Kafka, Build Tools, Spark Streaming, Front End Software Development, Vertica, Terraform
- **Published:** July 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=4663f24c5e2320dc

## About the Role

* 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

## Description

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., * 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, 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


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