Orbis Operations
Senior Backend Software Engineer, Platform Runtime
McLean, VA +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Location
- McLean, VA
Remote-US - Experience
- 5-7 years in backend or platform engineering; meaningful product-surface ownership.
About the job
Lead architecture and implementation of backend runtime features for Catalyst, Orbis’s secure distributed data platform, and ensure its services operate reliably at scale.
What you'll do
- Own runtime feature architecture and delivery from design through production rollout; document technical trade-offs.
- Trace and resolve cross-process and network issues; develop runtime features and distributed platform components.
- Set integration and resilience testing standards, participate in on-call, and lead incident post-mortems.
What they ask for
- Deep proficiency in Go, including concurrency and process management.
- Experience designing and consuming gRPC/protobuf service contracts, including versioned schema evolution.
- Hands-on experience with idempotent state machines and delivery guarantees in distributed pipelines.
- Experience with streaming or durable message systems and end-to-end integration testing of multi-component systems.
Nice to have
- Experience with media or data pipeline processing, or sandboxed plugin architectures.
- Familiarity with Unix domain sockets, process isolation, secure inter-process communication, or mission-critical environments; active Secret-or-higher clearance (Top Secret preferred).
Tools
Go, gRPC, protobuf, NATS JetStream, testcontainers, RTSP, RTMP, MPEG-TS
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