About the Role
This role is for a Distributed Systems Engineer, MQTT and Platform, responsible for scaling infrastructure, owning major architecture decisions, and building the platform for product features. It is ideal for a generalist software engineer with experience scaling 0-1 systems.
Responsibilities
- Scaling infrastructure
- Owning major architecture decisions
- Building the platform on which product features are built
Requirements
- Experience scaling 0-1 systems
Skills
- Distributed Systems
- MQTT
- Platform engineering
- Agentic AI tools
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Full-time
- On-site
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive compensation
Benefits
- Healthcare
- Full benefits
About the Company
- Orion is a personalized smart mattress cover that tracks sleep and uses AI to cool and heat the body to the perfect core body temperature cycle. The mattress cover has embedded sensors that track biological signals such as heart rate and breath rate, turning that into advanced sleep insights without the need of a wearable.
- Orion is led by repeat founders with multiple 9 and 10-figure exits in consumer products and health-tech.
- The team has a combination of technical, marketing, product, operational, manufacturing, and sleep science expertise.
- The founding team has previously built and sold businesses that currently exceed $2 billion in value, are doing over $700 million in revenue, and have over 25 million users.
- Orion is a zero-bureaucracy move-fast culture.
- Everyone on the team is hired and empowered to have complete ownership over their area of expertise.
- We would rather hire someone with strong opinions rather than no opinions.
- Our software engineering team writes almost 0 code by hand and leans heavy on agentic AI tools.
