Senior Backend Software Engineer, Platform Runtime

Required

• 5-7 years of experience in backend or platform engineering with demonstrated ownership of meaningful product surfaces
• Deep proficiency in Go, including concurrency patterns (goroutines, channels, cancelable contexts) and process and subprocess management
• Experience designing and consuming gRPC/protobuf service contracts across process boundaries, including versioned schema evolution
• Hands-on experience implementing idempotent state machines and delivery guarantees (at-least-once or exactly-once) in distributed pipelines
• Experience with streaming or durable message systems (NATS JetStream or equivalent), including backpressure, bounded queues, and resource limits
• Experience building integration test suites (for example testcontainers) that exercise multi-component systems end to end, including live enrollment scenarios
• 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)
• Orbis complies with all applicable equal opportunity and non-discrimination laws in every jurisdiction in which we operate. Reasonable accommodation is available to applicants and employees with disabilities upon request.