{"id":3747826,"url":"https://alion.io/job/orbisops-vp-of-engineering","title":"VP of Engineering","company":{"id":4461375,"name":"Orbisops","domain":"orbisops.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/orbisops","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":null},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"head","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"posting_text","remote_working_hours":{"label":"US time zones","utc_offset_min":-8,"utc_offset_max":-5},"hiring_geo_confidence":"inferred","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":["US","PR"],"hiring_countries_total":2,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":12,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Cloudflare","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"Go","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"Rust","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-22T17:37:20Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-03","last_verified_at":"2026-11-09T19:16:54Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":18,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":18},"description":"Company Overview\nOrbis 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.\nWe 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.\nJob Summary\nOrbis is hiring a Vice President of Engineering to lead our engineering organization through its most significant period of growth. You will lead our engineering directors and managers, hire and develop an exceptional technical workforce, and shape a culture where engineers do their best work while the organization triples in size over the next year.\nYou will report directly to the CTO and serve as the senior engineering leader accountable for how Orbis builds: the people, the leaders, the culture, the delivery engine, and the engineering standards. The CTO sets technical vision and architecture direction; you own the organization and operating model that turns that vision into reliable delivery at scale.\nThis role is built for a leader who has done it before in a small, fast-moving company, and who can bring structure without bureaucracy. You will be a visible, trusted voice with engineers, executives, and government customers alike. Our engineers work remotely across the United States and its territories, including Puerto Rico, so building ways of working that span time zones is central to this role.\nKey Responsibilities\nLead and develop engineering leadership. Own the engineering leadership team, including directors and managers. Set clear expectations, coach with candor, and build a leadership bench that scales with the company.\nBuild and retain a high-caliber workforce. Own the engineering workforce plan, hiring strategy, and interview process, and apply our career ladder consistently, to triple the team without lowering the bar. Make timely, fair decisions on performance and staffing.\nShape the engineering culture. Define working norms, career paths, recognition, and feedback loops around how our engineers actually want to work, and protect that culture as we grow.\nCommunicate with clarity at every level. Set direction and context for the whole engineering organization, and represent engineering to the executive team, the board as needed, and customers. Translate technical trade-offs into business and mission terms.\nOwn delivery and accountability. Partner with product leadership to turn priorities into predictable delivery, balancing roadmap commitments, technical debt, architecture, and capacity across a growing portfolio. Establish the metrics and operating rhythm that show how engineering is performing.\nSet technical direction and consolidate platforms. Working with the CTO, rationalize the toolchain, development environments, and shared infrastructure across our Rust, Go, TypeScript, and React codebases and our AWS, GCP, and Cloudflare environments to reduce duplication and speed delivery.\nScale skills and knowledge. Put documentation standards, shared engineering practices, onboarding, and training in place so knowledge lives in the organization rather than with individuals.\nHold the bar on security and quality. Ensure engineering practices meet the security, compliance, and reliability standards our government and allied customers require, including deployments onto small form factor computers in constrained and disconnected environments.\nLead a remote team across U.S. time zones and territories. Set core collaboration hours, meeting cadences, and on-call rotations that work across the continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and other territories, with written, asynchronous communication as the default.\nPartner across the business. Work closely with the CTO, Product, Security, People, Business Operations, and IT on budget, headcount, vendor decisions, and company-level planning.\n Travel up to 25% to our McLean, VA headquarters, team gatherings, and customer sites.\nRequired Qualifications\n12+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading engineering organizations through other managers, with at least 3 years at the director level or above.\nPrior experience as an engineering leader at a small or early-stage company (for example, under 200 employees), including operating with limited process and building structure as the company scales.\nDemonstrated success as a people leader: developing managers, building diverse and high-performing teams, handling difficult performance and staffing decisions, and retaining top talent through rapid growth.\nProven success scaling an engineering organization through rapid growth, including building hiring pipelines and interview processes.\nExceptional written and verbal communication, with a record of setting direction, giving candid feedback, and explaining engineering trade-offs to executives, boards, and customers.\nProven experience leading a fully remote engineering organization across multiple time zones, including schedules, core hours, meeting cadences, and on-call coverage.\nHands-on technical background in modern software delivery (cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, CI/CD, and DevSecOps), including production experience with at least one of Rust, Go, or TypeScript and with AWS, GCP, or Cloudflare, deep enough to make sound architecture decisions and earn the trust of senior engineers.\nBachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\nAbility to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.\nAbility to travel up to 25%.\nDesired Qualifications\nHands-on experience across our stack: Rust, Go, TypeScript, and React, deployed on AWS, GCP, and Cloudflare (including Workers).\nExperience shipping software to small form factor computers and other edge hardware, including resource-constrained or disconnected deployments.\nExperience leading engineering for products delivered to the DoD, Intelligence Community, or allied governments, including accredited, air-gapped, or edge environments.\nActive TS/SCI clearance.\nExperience building or scaling data platforms, data integration, or AI/ML products in production.\nExperience leading a toolchain consolidation, platform engineering, or developer-experience initiative across multiple teams.\nExperience managing an engineering budget and contributing to company-level strategy.\nAdvanced degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.\nPhysical Requirements\nProlonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer\nParticipation in virtual and in-person meetings\nAbility to attend planned meetings and/or work in classified spaces for extended periods within the United States and U.S. territories\nOrbis Benefits\nBeyond the opportunity to work alongside practitioners who have operated at the mission edge, joining Orbis means real ownership over outcomes that matter; the chance to build technology that gives the United States Government and its allies a genuine decision advantage, not just another dashboard. From competitive retirement matching to a PTO policy that encourages real time off, we're committed to creating an environment where our team can do their best work and still have a life outside of it.\nOur comprehensive benefits package is designed to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. A full list of benefits is shared with candidates following an initial conversation with our HR team, so you'll have a clear picture of the support and resources available to you as part of the Orbis team.\nOrbis Locations\nOrbis works in whatever arrangement the mission requires. Depending on the role, that might mean five days a week on a customer site, full-time in one of our offices, a hybrid schedule, or fully remote work; our team is spread across 25 states and four countries to match. We make sure every team member has the tools and access needed to do the work, wherever that work happens.\nTravel is common across many Orbis roles, particularly those supporting customer missions in the field.\nOrbis is headquartered in McLean, VA, with additional office locations in Taipei, Taiwan, and Canberra, Australia.\nOrbis is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We are committed to providing a work environment free of discrimination and harassment, and we make employment decisions based on merit, \nqualifications, and business need. Orbis does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.\nOrbis complies with all applicable equal opportunity and non-discrimination laws in every jurisdiction in which we operate. 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