Technical Support Engineer
Orbital · Los Angeles · hybrid
USD 95,000 to 105,000 per year
Orbital is the AI platform for real estate legal work.
Real estate shapes the world around us: our homes, our workplaces and our cultural landmarks. It’s the infrastructure that powers everyday life and is the world's largest asset class. Yet behind every single deal, real estate and legal teams work hard to navigate decades-old complexity; manually connecting documents, hidden obligations, geo-spatial context, and multiple parties into a path forward. We connect the legal and physical record, so that path is clearer than ever before. Our mission is to make real estate transactions faster, clearer, and less manual.
Here, you'll be part of changing how the deals behind the largest asset class get transacted, and will help shape the future of real estate.
A bit about us:
🚀 We’re building at the forefront of AI technology, without losing the deeply human expertise our clients depend on.
🏢 Orbital is built with former practising real estate lawyers and 250+ years of combined legal expertise. We're purpose-built for the complexity of real estate: accelerating due diligence, drafting and negotiation, and deal coordination with legal-grade precision.
💰 We've just raised a $60m Series B, led by Brighton Park Capital, to accelerate our global expansion – $75m raised to date.
🤝 We're trusted by 5,000+ real estate professionals, spanning UK Magic Circle and US Am Law 100 firms, to household names like M&S. Leading firms like BCLP, Orrick, Goodwin, Womble Bond Dickinson and Clifford Chance rely on Orbital to remove the busywork, freeing legal and real estate teams to focus on sharp judgment, standout client service, and closing deals faster.
💡 Working at Orbital means joining a bold, ambitious team, with the trust to take ownership and make a real impact from day one.
OUR VISION 🏆
We're building the AI that runs real estate transactions end-to-end. Today, property deals depend on overworked lawyers buried in paperwork and reports - a system that's slow, expensive, and stuck in the last century. We're replacing it with autonomous AI that handles the work from instruction to completion, so deals move at the speed of decisions, not documents.
OUR MISSION 💪🏽
Our mission is to help any professional or individual involved in a property transaction to properly understand what they are getting into, from the outset, before incurring legal fees.
OUR VALUES 🐸
- We are Bold & Ambitious ⚡ (changing an entire industry is hard!)
- We give Power to our People 💪 (we give exceptional people autonomy to succeed)
- We Question or Commit 🙋 ****(we welcome debate, but love reaching quick decisions)
- … and we Eat that Frog! 🐸 (we take on the hardest thing first)
ROLE OVERVIEW 🔎
We're looking for a Technical Support Engineer to join our Los Angeles team and help us deliver exceptional technical support across all Orbital products.
You'll work at the intersection of customers, product, and engineering. When something isn't working, you'll investigate, understand what's going wrong, and either resolve it yourself or get the right people involved.
This is first and foremost a technical troubleshooting role. You'll use logs, monitoring systems and AI-powered tools to understand customer problems, identify their causes and work out what needs to happen next. You won't be expected to ship product features or work independently in the codebase when you join. Where a straightforward bug can be fixed safely, experienced engineers will guide you through making and testing the change. You'll also develop the judgement to recognise when something is seriously broken and needs immediate attention.
You'll work alongside our first-line support team, Customer Success, and our engineers in London to make sure customer issues are handled quickly, communicated clearly, and followed through to resolution.
You don't need a software engineering background to succeed in this role. We care more about your curiosity, technical aptitude, initiative, and ambition to grow. We'll give you guidance as you learn our products and tools, with opportunities to develop coding skills through small bug fixes over time.
You’ll get a chance to: 👩💻 👨💻
- Investigate and solve technical problems. Diagnose issues across Orbital's products, reproduce bugs, inspect logs and traces, and work out what is actually going wrong.
- Use AI to work smarter. Use tools such as Claude, Codex, AI coding agents, and connected internal systems to investigate unfamiliar code, debug failures, and accelerate troubleshooting.
- Learn to make small bug fixes. With guidance from experienced engineers and support from AI coding tools, help implement straightforward, low-risk fixes when appropriate, following our testing and review processes. Shipping new features is not an expectation of this role.
- Own second-line technical support. Work with first-line support to pick up issues that require deeper technical investigation, assess their urgency, and follow them through to resolution.
- Recognise and escalate incidents. Understand when a problem represents a serious customer or platform issue, raise an incident, and give on-call engineers the context they need to act quickly.
- Communicate clearly with customers and colleagues. Explain technical issues in plain English, provide useful updates, and make sure people understand what's happening and what comes next.
- Support our US teams. Work with Customer Success, Sales, and Legal Engineering to help resolve technical problems affecting customers, trials, and demonstrations.
- Improve how we support customers. Spot recurring issues, improve runbooks and troubleshooting tools, and find opportunities to reduce repetitive support work.
- Build your engineering knowledge. Learn from experienced engineers, become familiar with our systems and architecture, and progressively take on more challenging technical work.
YOU SHOULD APPLY IF YOU ✍️
- You're naturally curious about technology. You enjoy understanding how software works and finding out why something has gone wrong.
- You have a foundation in technical troubleshooting. You're comfortable investigating problems, forming hypotheses, gathering evidence, and systematically working towards an answer.
- You're willing to learn to work with code. You don't need professional software development experience or to be comfortable changing code independently today. You're interested in learning how applications work, reading code with guidance, and gradually making small bug fixes.
- You're comfortable learning new tools. You're interested in AI coding assistants and willing to use them to investigate problems, understand unfamiliar systems, and improve how you work.
- You take ownership. You're comfortable working independently, following an issue through to completion, and recognising when you need help.
- You have good judgement. You understand the difference between an everyday bug and a serious incident, and can make sensible decisions under pressure.
- You communicate exceptionally well. You can turn a complicated technical problem into a clear explanation that a non-technical person can understand.
- You're ambitious and eager to grow. You actively look for opportunities to learn, seek feedback, and want to develop towards deeper technical or product responsibilities.
- You care about the customer experience. You understand that even a small technical issue can be disruptive, and you take pride in helping people get back to their work.
You might come from technical support, application support, QA, an early software engineering role, or have developed your skills through personal projects. We're open to different backgrounds if you can demonstrate the ability and motivation to succeed.
IT WOULD ALSO BE NICE IF YOU HAVE
- Experience with monitoring and debugging tools such as Datadog, Cloudwatch, or similar platforms.
- Familiarity with SQL, HTTP