Staff Distributed Systems Engineer — Go & Real-Time Data

Orbis-Operation; United States; Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Orbis Operations seeks a Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Systems to define architecture across the messaging, state, and reconciliation layers of Catalyst, our secure distributed data platform that moves and transforms data reliably. You will shape platform architecture and set technical direction for a team building critical infrastructure.

TRAVEL: International travel to Middle East and geopolitical hot zones, up to 25% per calendar year is required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years building distributed systems in production.
• Deep hands-on experience with Go in high-throughput, concurrent systems.
• Experience with gRPC/protobuf-based service boundaries and cross-system transfer protocols.
• Fluency in failure semantics of distributed systems and durable state.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture across messaging, state, and reconciliation layers of Catalyst.
• Drive design of high-performance, low-latency architectures for specialized workloads.
• Lead CI/CD pipelines and IaC for automated testing, deployment, and quality assurance.
• Review PRs for security, testing, and operational readiness; integrate automated scanners.

Skills

Go

Python

Distributed systems

gRPC

Protobuf

System design

Security practices

Tools

GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

Pulumi

Ansible

Notion

Trivy

Dependabot

Job description

Orbis Operations seeks a Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Systems to define architecture across the messaging, state, and reconciliation layers of Catalyst, our secure distributed data platform that moves and transforms data reliably. You will shape platform architecture and set technical direction for a team building critical infrastructure.

TRAVEL: International travel to Middle East and geopolitical hot zones, up to 25% per calendar year is required.