kshitijgrover

Orb | Software Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, SRE | San Francisco, CA (in-person) | Full Time

Orb is building billing infrastructure for modern companies. As companies grow and evolve, the ability to change their pricing and packaging is often limited by the sheer complexity of the engineering effort involved to make those changes. I experienced these challenges first hand and my desire to solve this problem is what led me to start Orb.

At Orb, we're looking to fill a handful of engineering roles including:

- Site Reliability Engineer: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/orb/12f03ff6-f464-498c-a807-7aad894...

- Software Engineer, Full Stack: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/orb/25d6b4f8-72b9-44ff-a48f-29a60c7...

- Software Engineer, Infrastructure: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/orb/2b527d31-12c5-41e4-80fc-8b63e36...

You can find out more about the team and company here: www.withorb.com/about

Orb | Software Engineers | San Francisco, CA (in-person, on-site) | Full Time

Orb is building billing infrastructure for modern companies. As companies grow and evolve, the ability to change their pricing and packaging is often limited by the sheer complexity of the engineering effort involved to make those changes. I experienced these challenges first hand and my desire to solve this problem is what led me to start Orb. Orb powers billing for the fastest growing developer companies, including Vercel, Replit, Materialize, Neon, and many more.

Join Orb to tackle technical challenges ranging from massive infra challenges (individual customers send us XM+ events/sec) to tricky data modeling problems in a new world of billing.

At Orb, we're looking to fill a handful of engineering roles including:

- Software Engineer, Customer Experience: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/orb/68c8720a-5124-4611-97f6-56d8aa6...

- Software Engineer, Full Stack: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/orb/25d6b4f8-72b9-44ff-a48f-29a60c7...

- Software Engineer, Platform: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/orb/8043aa64-dd69-4682-8ad3-8f6d654...

- UI Engineer: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/orb/bbb38cb8-6b71-4d3e-b8f6-32b0f15...

You can find out more about the team and company here: https://www.withorb.com/about

At Orb (https://www.withorb.com/) we’ve worked with a bunch of infra customers that are in a similar situation to what you’re describing. Generally, usage tracking and usage reporting is not the hard part. We think that giving you a full SQL layer on top of raw events is very powerful, so we provide direct SQL access to your events. Naturally, we use a real-time time series database under the hood to power that.

We’re working hard to make it easy to send data to us (e.g. just drop it in S3). Granted, this isn’t ideal per your note of already throwing it into VictoriaMetrics, but we’re finding that often times companies don’t have the optimized in-house infra to run the sort of usage metric queries to go from raw events -> invoice, especially when you get to >100k events/second scale. It often makes sense for us to control the storage (and sharding) format — and we can bring those costs down over time.

Given the usage events and the SQL queries over them, we then focus a bunch on making the core billing interactions work well, do invoice delivery for you (example: https://invoices.withorb.com/view?token=IlJwOVRSdWhEQ3NiRUVH...), and make it easy for you to do financial reporting & rev-rec (honestly, this is its own rabbithole — but we find it’s extremely outside the core competency of eng/product teams)