Integration Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

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 an Integration Engineer to join a deployed integration team supporting an ongoing program for a government client in the Middle East. You will work alongside a Senior Integration Engineer who serves as your day-to-day technical lead and primary escalation point. In this role, you will participate directly in customer technical discovery sessions, contribute to the design and implementation of data connectors and integration plugins, and support deployment and validation of integrations across the customer environment.

You are expected to execute assigned work with increasing autonomy while developing sharp judgment about when to bring in the Senior IE rather than pushing forward alone. Node deployment and platform infrastructure use provided tooling and established runbooks; your responsibility on the infrastructure side is correct configuration, validation, and first-level triage. Software-layer issues are escalated to the platform product team. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who executes well, learns fast, and understands that knowing when to flag a problem is as important as solving one.

Travel:  This is a remote role with extended travel to the Middle East, including time spent in geopolitical hot zones up to 40% of the time. Please apply if you are willing to meet this requirement.

Key Responsibilities 

• Execute integration delivery for assigned data sources: requirements analysis, connector design, implementation, testing, deployment, and validation in the target environment
• Participate in customer technical discovery sessions alongside the Senior IE: contribute to mapping customer network topology, data sources, system dependencies, and operational constraints that inform integration and deployment decisions
• Implement data connectors and integration plugins (producer bridges, operators, consumer bridges) for assigned source systems across air, land, maritime, air defense, space, and cyber domains
• Develop judgment about when to proceed independently and when to flag the Senior IE; escalate ambiguity, blockers, or anything outside established patterns before it becomes a problem
• Deploy and validate integrations across customer environments (cloud-native, on-premises, and tactical edge) using provided Ansible and Helm tooling
• Stand up and configure platform nodes using established runbooks and provided deployment tooling; validate cluster health and configuration correctness post-deployment
• Contribute to Tier 1 team triage alongside the Senior IE; help diagnose integration-layer issues and support the team's characterization of problems before escalation
• Follow and contribute to integration documentation, runbooks, and onboarding guides
• Support customer technical exchanges within your integration domain under the direction of the Senior IE or Program Technical lead

Required Qualifications

• 2-4 years of professional software engineering experience with a focus on system integrations or data pipelines
• Proficiency in Go (preferred) or Python for integration development
• Demonstrated ability to deliver integration work with increasing independence under technical guidance
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing containerized applications (Docker, Kubernetes/Helm)
• Strong debugging skills and the discipline to escalate when a problem exceeds your lane
• Strong collaboration and communication skills in distributed, remote, cross-functional teams
• Experience participating in customer-facing technical discovery or requirements gathering sessions
• Familiarity with defense data standards and protocols: ASTERIX, Cursor on Target (CoT), STANAG, radar UDP
• Background with military, law enforcement, or intelligence community operations and organizations
• Experience supporting international programs with distributed, cross-cultural teams
• Understanding of service mesh concepts, mTLS, and zero-trust network architectures
• Familiarity with edge-native deployment patterns and constrained operational environments
• Fluency with AI-assisted development tooling (Claude, Copilot, Cursor, or equivalents) as part of daily engineering practice

Desired Qualifications

• Familiarity with defense data standards and protocols: ASTERIX, Cursor on Target (CoT), STANAG, radar UDP
• Background with military, law enforcement, or intelligence community operations and organizations
• Experience supporting international programs with distributed, cross-cultural teams
• Understanding of service mesh concepts, mTLS, and zero-trust network architectures
• Familiarity with edge-native deployment patterns and constrained operational environments
• Experience with customer enablement, technical training, or knowledge transfer in field environments
• Fluency with AI-assisted development tooling (Claude, Copilot, Cursor, or equivalents) as part of daily engineering practice

Physical Requirements 

The following describes the physical demands of this position. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions in accordance with the ADA.

Sedentary Work: Primarily performs work in a seated position for extended periods; occasionally required to stand, walk, or move within the work area
Fine Motor Skills : Regularly required to use hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, and standard office equipment
Vision: Must be able to read and view a computer screen for extended periods; close vision and ability to adjust focus required
Communication: Must be able to communicate clearly and effectively in person, via telephone, and through video conferencing platforms; ability to hear and understand spoken information in a professional setting required
Lifting: Occasionally required to lift and/or move items up to 25 pounds (e.g., files, documents, office supplies)
Concentration: Must be able to maintain sustained focus and attention to detail in a professional office or hybrid work environment

Travel: This is a remote role with extended travel to the Middle East, including time spent in geopolitical hot zones up to 40% of the time. Please apply if you are willing to meet this requirement.

Orbis 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 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, 

qualifications, 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.

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.