Orbis Operations
Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Systems
Remote - US & Middle East +1 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
- Location
- Remote - US & Middle East
Remote-US - Experience
- 7+ years building distributed systems in production.
About the job
Defines architecture and technical direction for Catalyst, a secure distributed data platform, and leads the reliability and evolution of its data movement and infrastructure systems.
What you'll do
- Design and evolve distributed data-plane architecture, including event streaming, queuing, state management, and data movement.
- Lead reliability practices, incident response, CI/CD, security and dependency management, and infrastructure operations.
- Set engineering standards and technical direction, guide team collaboration, and define how AI-assisted tools support the workflow.
What they ask for
- Deep hands-on Go experience building high-throughput, concurrent systems.
- Experience with message queues or streaming systems, distributed state machines, idempotency, and failure recovery.
- Experience with gRPC/protobuf service boundaries, schema versioning, and distributed-component session management.
- Strong communication skills and a track record of setting technical direction across platform or infrastructure areas.
Nice to have
- Experience with embedded streaming or data infrastructure, independently versioned protobuf codebases, or regulated/high-reliability systems.
- National security, intelligence, or defense experience; active Secret-or-higher clearance, with Top Secret preferred.
Tools
Golang, Python, NATS/JetStream, Kafka, gRPC, protobuf, Datadog, Kubernetes
AI focus
Define how AI-assisted tooling fits into the team's workflow to accelerate development and increase knowledge.
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