# Senior Cloud & Backend Software Engineer

About Orbit We're a team of engineers, neuroscientists, and designers working to deepen our understanding of the human brain. We're building a wearable brain-computer interface and models that decode emotion, with the goal of putting human experience and wellbeing at the center of technology. Our work spans neural sensors, embedded systems, scientific software, and AI. We're venture funded, with backing from founders and executives across AI, neurotechnology, consumer hardware, and pharmaceuticals, including Google, Hugging Face, Apple, Stability, Microsoft, and Dropbox. About the role Build the data foundation that connects neural recordings to scientific discovery. This is a greenfield opportunity to shape our backend architecture, data model, database design, and the services that make recordings accessible and useful. You'll have real influence over technology choices and how the platform grows. Leading candidates include Supabase and PostgreSQL, with S3-compatible object storage and Zarr v3 for scientific arrays. We favor focused services and managed infrastructure that give a small team room to build ambitious capabilities. You will Shape the backend architecture and select t

- **Id**: 3991286
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/orbit-senior-cloud-backend-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T20:19:12Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T23:29:24Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4787
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Machine Learning, Neurotech & Neuromodulation

## Company

- **Id**: 4403680
- **Name**: Orbit
- **Domain**: orbitneuro.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/orbit-8>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary

- **Min**: 185000
- **Max**: 215000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 215000

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Dropbox** — Optional: no
- **Firebase** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **GraphQL** — Optional: no
- **Hugging Face** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **MQTT** — Optional: no
- **MySQL** — Optional: no
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Pulumi** — Optional: no
- **RabbitMQ** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Supabase** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T23:29:24Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T04:18:53Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 215000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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