Engineering Manager

About Orb

Orb is on a mission to revolutionize billing infrastructure for the modern era of AI and software. We empower businesses to align their monetization with product usage—whether through seats, consumption, feature limits, or hybrid pricing models. Our developer-first, data-driven approach enables companies to automate their billing processes and adapt their pricing strategies with ease.

With Orb, revenue workflows are seamless for every team: developers love our intuitive API and extensibility, product managers iterate on pricing and packaging faster, finance teams gain fine-grained reporting for revenue recognition, and customer-facing teams build trust through billing transparency. Companies like Vercel, Pinecone, and Replit rely on Orb to power their most critical revenue initiatives.

Backed by $44.1 million in funding from top investors like Mayfield, Menlo Ventures, and Greylock, we’re building a hybrid, in-office culture in downtown San Francisco (3 days/week). Our team thrives on collaboration, focus, and kindness, with a shared commitment to solving high-impact problems for our customers. At Orb, every team member drives meaningful impact, and we’re just getting started.

Role & Impact

As a leader on the engineering team at Orb, you’ll drive technical strategy and execution and manage engineers on our product engineering team. Along with your product and design partners, you’ll work closely with our customers to understand pain points in their business processes and help incorporate those insights into our product roadmap. 

Orb has a broad range of technical challenges that you’ll tackle in concert with our team:

• Our product data model should be simple to understand and powerful enough to support the sophisticated needs of an array of businesses – our customers range from fast-scaling AI startups to public companies that rely on us to solve their monetization challenges

• Our system needs to maintain the scaling characteristics to support real-time ingestion and query, which come with the design challenges of performance, consistency, and load isolation. These characteristics play a big role in every part of the product experience

• Orb’s product approach centers around extensibility while being opinionated about defaults. Every product team at Orb needs to learn how to cater to both developers who will build on our platform and cross-functional audiences who need their workflows delivered out of the box

The billing engine team is responsible for extending Orb’s position as the most flexible billing platform in the market, focused on expanding subscription management and pricing capabilities. You’ll touch the most critical abstractions in the Orb technical domain, ranging from contracts & prepaid commitments to subscription modifications and sophisticated invoicing setups. The billing engine is the cornerstone of Orb’s functionality, tying into both the integration ecosystem and the finance & data products.

About You

• You have 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with 2+ years as an engineering manager or tech lead manager equivalent.

• Enthusiastic about coaching and up-leveling execution across a broad range of technical challenges. 

• You will hold the team’s bar for technical excellence, and be the pace-setter on the team.

• Passionate about building mindful engineering and product processes, ensuring that our team can continue to build quickly and serve our customers for years to come.

• Based in the San Francisco Bay Area or willing to relocate (with support from Orb)

You might be a good fit if you:

• Are comfortable navigating complexity and ambiguity, bringing clarity and execution rigor to the team

• Have a deep technical understanding of distributed systems, data modeling, and system architecture

• Enjoy understanding the nitty gritty of technical domains deeply

In order to thoughtfully scale the company and avoid downstream inequities, we don’t use leveling titles at Orb. You will not see us use prefixes like “Senior” in our job descriptions. We include experience requirements for every role and compensate employees based on their experience and internal level within Orb.

Our Technical Process

We’re using React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Python, PostgreSQL, and Kafka. 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. We believe in shipping code quickly and continuously.

Please note: We value in-person collaboration and have built a hybrid, in office culture with 3 days/week at our HQ in downtown San Francisco. We see it as a way to achieve our mission faster, in an environment of rapid ideation, strong alignment, and that energy that makes work more fun. Unless specifically noted in the job above, please plan to join us in person in San Francisco.

Benefits

• Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% coverage for you and dependents

• Unlimited PTO (with 15 days minimum encouraged) plus one week of time off during the last week of December

• 401k plan

• 16-week paid parental leave with equity vesting

• Commuter stipend

• Catered lunches in the office

• Meaningful equity in the form of stock options and a unique ten-year exercise window

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.