Senior Real-Time Streaming Engineer (Go)

Orbis-Operation; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Orbis Operations is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Catalyst Data Platform to own key features in data pipelines, ensuring high-performance movement of real-time data from distributed edge environments into our core platform. You will optimize end-to-end pipelines to maintain stability under extreme scale.

This role requires strong Go engineering skills, real-time streaming expertise, and collaboration with product and engineering teams, with international travel up to 25% and

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of experience in real-time data streaming with demonstrated ownership of meaningful product surfaces.
• Deep working knowledge of media session negotiation and transport layer mechanics and challenges like jitter, sequencing, multiplexing, and reconnection and backoff handling.
• Hands-on experience with streaming transport, including frame-level audio, video, and data handling and timestamp reconciliation.
• Strong Go engineering skills with a strong grasp of protocol-level behavior.
• Exceptional communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences; you routinely interface with customers, product leaders, and engineering teams to gather requirements, articulate trade-offs, and drive alignment from initial design to delivery.
• Travel up to 25% for customer engagement, architecture reviews, or team collaboration (Middle East)

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement features across the full streaming lifecycle, from ingestion and buffering/jitter handling through to distribution and final packaging/multiplexing workflows
• Partner with product and engineering stakeholders to refine requirements, identify technical constraints, and deliver solutions that balance product vision with system integrity
• Evaluate and document critical technical trade-offs for Catalyst production systems, providing clear architectural rationale for high-impact design decisions
• Design and implement high-performance modules for media ingress, relay, and packetization logic (e.g., handling RTSP, RTP, or WebRTC protocols), including support for KLV-encoded telemetry metadata extraction and synchronization
• Act as the subject matter expert for a core protocol subsystem, managing complex edge cases and ensuring interoperability between diverse hardware sources and software consumers
• Establish and uphold quality standards by implementing rigorous testing (e.g., chaos engineering and property-based testing) and monitoring critical streaming metrics (e.g., end-to-end latency, jitter, and throughput) via observability platforms like Datadog or Prometheus
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response, conducting post-incident reviews to implement preventative mitigations and improve system reliability
• Contribute to the evolution of automated deployment pipelines (e.g., using GitHub Actions, Docker containerization, and Kubernetes deployments) to ensure reliable, high-integrity delivery of streaming modules across the platform
• Formally mentor junior engineers on protocol fundamentals and lead team rituals such as design reviews and planning sessions
• Travel up to 25% for customer engagement, architecture reviews, or team collaboration (Middle East)

Skills

Go engineering

real-time streaming

system architecture

communication skills

Tools

Datadog

Prometheus

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Orbis Operations is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Catalyst Data Platform to own key features in data pipelines, ensuring high-performance movement of real-time data from distributed edge environments into our core platform. You will optimize end-to-end pipelines to maintain stability under extreme scale.

This role requires strong Go engineering skills, real-time streaming expertise, and collaboration with product and engineering teams, with international travel up to 25% and