Senior Real-Time Streaming Engineer — Edge Data Platforms

Orbis; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement matching

PTO

Job summary

Orbis in Washington, DC is seeking a Senior Software Engineer within Catalyst Data Platform to own key features in data pipelines, ensuring high-performance movement from edge environments into the core platform. You will work across system components to deliver end-to-end functionality and optimize high-throughput pipelines under extreme scale.

You will design streaming modules for RTSP/RTP/WebRTC, lead architectural decisions, mentor junior engineers, participate in on-call rotations, and

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of real-time streaming experience
• Strong Go and protocol-level knowledge
• Experience with RTSP/RTP/WebRTC and media transport

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement streaming features across ingestion to packaging workflows
• Collaborate with product and engineering to refine requirements and deliver reliable solutions
• Evaluate trade-offs for Catalyst production systems and document architectural rationale
• Design modules for media ingress, relay, and packetization (RTSP/RTP/WebRTC)
• Mentor junior engineers and lead design reviews and planning sessions
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response to improve reliability

Skills

Real-time streaming

Go

Data pipelines

System design

Stakeholder comms

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Job description

Orbis in Washington, DC is seeking a Senior Software Engineer within Catalyst Data Platform to own key features in data pipelines, ensuring high-performance movement from edge environments into the core platform. You will work across system components to deliver end-to-end functionality and optimize high-throughput pipelines under extreme scale.

You will design streaming modules for RTSP/RTP/WebRTC, lead architectural decisions, mentor junior engineers, participate in on-call rotations, and