Orbis - VP of Engineering
Requirements
• Hold 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. • Hold the bar on security and quality. • Lead 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. • Lead a remote team across U.S. time zones and territories. • Partner across the business. Work closely with the CTO, Product, Security, People, Business Operations, and IT on budget, headcount, vendor decisions, and company-level planning. • Partner across the business. • Travel up to 25% to our McLean, VA headquarters, team gatherings, and customer sites. • Travel up to 25% • 12+ 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. • Prior 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. • Demonstrated 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. • Proven success scaling an engineering organization through rapid growth, including building hiring pipelines and interview processes. • Exceptional written and verbal communication, with a record of setting direction, giving candid feedback, and explaining engineering trade-offs to executives, boards, and customers. • Proven experience leading a fully remote engineering organization across multiple time zones, including schedules, core hours, meeting cadences, and on-call coverage. • Hands-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. • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. • Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance. • Ability to travel up to 25%. • Hands-on experience across our stack: Rust, Go, TypeScript, and React, deployed on AWS, GCP, and Cloudflare (including Workers). • Experience shipping software to small form factor computers and other edge hardware, including resource-constrained or disconnected deployments. • Experience leading engineering for products delivered to the DoD, Intelligence Community, or allied governments, including accredited, air-gapped, or edge environments. • Active TS/SCI clearance. • Experience building or scaling data platforms, data integration, or AI/ML products in production. • Experience leading a toolchain consolidation, platform engineering, or developer-experience initiative across multiple teams. • Experience managing an engineering budget and contributing to company-level strategy. • Advanced degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field. • Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer • Participation in virtual and in-person meetings • Ability to attend planned meetings and/or work in classified spaces for extended periods within the United States and U.S. territories
Responsibilities
• Lead 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. • Lead and develop engineering leadership. • Build 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. • Build and retain a high-caliber workforce. • Shape 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. • Shape the engineering culture. • Communicate 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. • Communicate with clarity at every level. • Own 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. • Own delivery and accountability. • Set 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. • Set technical direction and consolidate platforms. • Scale skills and knowledge. Put documentation standards, shared engineering practices, onboarding, and training in place so knowledge lives in the organization rather than with individuals.
Benefits
• Beyond 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. • Our 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. • Orbis Locations • Orbis Locations • Orbis 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. • Travel is common across many Orbis roles, particularly those supporting customer missions in the field. • Orbis is headquartered in McLean, VA, with additional office locations in Taipei, Taiwan, and Canberra, Australia. • Orbis 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,
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