Hybrid Lead Distributed Systems Engineer, Orchestration

Fresh Consulting; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits

Equity

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Fresh Consulting seeks a Staff Software Engineer (Principal Level) to lead core scheduling/orchestration for the Orbital Compute platform. You will own the MVP for autonomous scheduling across a fleet of compute nodes and scale it from satellites to larger fleets, incorporating data sovereignty as a core feature.

Work closely with software, hardware, security, and systems engineers to deliver secure, reliable products.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 15+ years of professional software development experience with systems languages (Go, Rust, C++, Java).
• Deep experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems at scale.
• Experience with scheduling, orchestration, or resource-management systems (Kubernetes, Nomad, or similar).
• Proven track record taking products from MVP/POC to production at scale.
• Experience with performance, reliability, and fault tolerance in distributed environments.
• Experience with Git distro (GitLab) and CI/CD tools.
• Desirable: security and data sovereignty as product requirements; autonomous/self-healing systems.
• Ability to thrive in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the core scheduling and orchestration subsystems of the Orbitnal Compute platform.
• Own the MVP for autonomous scheduling across a fleet of compute nodes; apply lessons from POCs.
• Scale the MVP from a few satellites to larger fleets with data sovereignty as a core feature.
• Design and build a distributed computing engine prioritizing performance, reliability, and security.
• Develop scheduling, orchestration, and workload-placement for edge environments with intermittent connectivity.
• Collaborate with software, hardware, security, and systems engineers to deliver secure, reliable products.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and constructive design/review feedback.
• Deliver iteratively in a fast-paced setting with ambiguity.

Skills

leadership

mentorship

problem solving

communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Go

Rust

C++

Java

Kubernetes

Nomad

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

Fresh Consulting seeks a Staff Software Engineer (Principal Level) to lead core scheduling/orchestration for the Orbital Compute platform. You will own the MVP for autonomous scheduling across a fleet of compute nodes and scale it from satellites to larger fleets, incorporating data sovereignty as a core feature.

Work closely with software, hardware, security, and systems engineers to deliver secure, reliable products.