# Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

Company Overview Orbis is a technology company that delivers sovereign intelligence and decision capabilities to the United States Government and its allies. We convert complex information and operational systems into decisive outcomes, giving public institutions and critical enterprises the tools to move faster, see clearer, and act first in an increasingly contested world. We are not a consulting firm and not a systems integrator. Every Orbis team is built around practitioners who have operated at the mission edge, and every engagement is judged on one thing: whether it produces working capability, not slide decks. Solutions forged from experience; that is how we build, and it is how we hire. Job Summary Orbis is seeking 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. We are looking for someone who has shaped platform architecture and wants to help 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

- **Id**: 3747834
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/orbisops-staff-software-engineer-distributed-systems>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_regions
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries**: US, AE, EG, IL, SA, TR, DZ, BH, KM, DJ, IQ, JO, KW, LB, MR, MA, OM, PS, QA, SO, TN, EH
- **Hiring countries total**: 22
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-09T19:58:06Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T08:09:55Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 28
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9304
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Continuous learning
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Government, National Security, Homeland Security

## Company

- **Id**: 4461375
- **Name**: Orbisops
- **Domain**: orbisops.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/orbisops>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

## Technologies

- **Ansible** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Datadog** — Optional: no
- **Dependabot** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **GitHub** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **gRPC** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **NATS** — Optional: no
- **Notion** — Optional: no
- **Pulumi** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **Trivy** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 28

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country
- **United Arab Emirates** — Iso: AE; Kind: region
- **Egypt** — Iso: EG; Kind: region
- **Israel** — Iso: IL; Kind: region
- **Saudi Arabia** — Iso: SA; Kind: region
- **Turkey** — Iso: TR; Kind: region
- **Algeria** — Iso: DZ; Kind: region
- **Bahrain** — Iso: BH; Kind: region
- **Comoros** — Iso: KM; Kind: region
- **Djibouti** — Iso: DJ; Kind: region
- **Iraq** — Iso: IQ; Kind: region
- **Jordan** — Iso: JO; Kind: region
- **Kuwait** — Iso: KW; Kind: region
- **Lebanon** — Iso: LB; Kind: region
- **Mauritania** — Iso: MR; Kind: region
- **Morocco** — Iso: MA; Kind: region
- **Oman** — Iso: OM; Kind: region
- **Palestine** — Iso: PS; Kind: region
- **Qatar** — Iso: QA; Kind: region
- **Somalia** — Iso: SO; Kind: region
- **Tunisia** — Iso: TN; Kind: region
- **Western Sahara** — Iso: EH; Kind: region

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T14:03:34Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 89
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.993
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 28
- **Expected fill days**: 47
- **Reasons**: conf:1, urgency, velocity, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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