Vice President of Engineering

Job overview

The Vice President of Engineering role is fully remote across the United States and its territories, with travel up to 25% to the McLean, VA headquarters, team gatherings, and customer sites. Compensation is not specified. Orbis delivers sovereign intelligence and decision capabilities to the U.S. Government and its allies.

What you'll do

• Lead engineering directors and managers
• build and retain the engineering workforce
• shape engineering culture
• communicate direction and trade-offs
• own delivery accountability and operating metrics
• work with the CTO on platform and toolchain consolidation
• establish documentation, onboarding, and training practices
• uphold security, compliance, and reliability standards
• lead remote collaboration across time zones
• and partner across business functions. The role includes on-call rotations as part of remote team operations.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

vice president of engineering

remote

united states and territories

engineering leadership

software delivery

remote team leadership

rust

go

typescript

aws

travel up to 25%

on-call rotations

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Competitive retirement matching and PTO policy
• the full benefits list is shared with candidates after an initial HR conversation.

Why this role

The role leads organizational growth and delivery across a remote engineering workforce, with software and cloud environments including Rust, Go, TypeScript, React, AWS, GCP, and Cloudflare.

About the employer

Orbis is hiring for this role. Industry: Computer Systems Design Services. Sector: 54.