Platform Staff Engineer

What You'll Do

• At Omnidian we believe in trust and autonomy. How you create an impact is ultimately up to you. Here is an outline of some of the things you’ll be doing:
• Technical Leadership: You’re a key contributor in defining and driving the vision for platform engineering, shaping best practices and long-term strategy.
• Infrastructure Architecture: Design and enhance cloud-based environments with an emphasis on automation, reliability, and scalability.
• Developer Experience: Be hands-on, building and refining tools that improve software delivery, deployment efficiency, and observability.
• Collaboration & Mentorship: Partner with engineering teams to understand needs, guide implementation, troubleshoot complex challenges, and mentor junior engineers.
• Security & Compliance: Establish secure development practices, infrastructure policies, and monitoring strategies.
• Innovation: Evaluate emerging technologies, propose new approaches, and drive adoption of best-in-class solutions.
• Ensure Technical Excellence: Oversee the reliability, security, extensibility, and accessibility of our systems that process thousands of solar sites across the country.

Who You Are

• You thrive in an environment where you can both guide a team and contribute directly to engineering work.
• You lead by example and your actions inspire the growth of engineers across the organization.
• You are able to quickly learn new concepts, tools, and technologies
• You take ownership over your work including its delivery and timelines 
• You enjoy a dynamic and highly collaborative environment
• You are committed to excellence and integrity
• You demonstrate respect and dignity for all people

Experience You’ll Need

• 8+ years of experience focused on SRE principles and operational excellence methodologies.
• Extensive experience in cloud platforms (e.g. AWS) and modern DevOps practices.
• Deep expertise in Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform) and automation frameworks.
• Proficiency in Kubernetes, containers, and orchestration technologies.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD workflows (BitBucket Pipelines, Flux CD) and deployment strategies.
• Experience leading architectural discussions and making high-impact technical decisions.
• Experience evaluating trade-offs having a strong, data-driven opinion on what to prioritize.
• Solid understanding of security best practices, networking, and cloud governance.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and inspire teams.

Experience That's a Plus

• You’ve made significant contributions to improving engineering practices and processes in a growing company and have evolved those practices and processes over a company’s different stages of growth.
• All of our software is written in Kotlin, Java, Python, and TypeScript. We run it all in Kubernetes on AWS and integrate and deploy with Bitbucket and Flux CD. We observe our systems using Prometheus, Grafana, and Sentry. Experience with any of these specific technologies will help when onboarding, but we only require experience with similar technologies!
• Experience with service mesh architectures and API gateways.
• Familiarity with authentication platforms, roles, and access tokens

Work-life and Culture

• Most of our roles offer the opportunity to work remotely
• If you are in the Seattle area, we offer a vibrant office space in the historic and beautiful Smith Tower, in the heart of Pioneer Square
• We prioritize applicants near one of our employee clusters and offer one or more local gatherings per year
• We provide outstanding benefits including family medical, dental, vision, disability, 401(k) administration and $1k match per year and thoughtful paid time off
• We offer 12 weeks of paid parental leave to all FTE employees (birthing and non-birthing) after 1 year, and four-week paid sabbatical leave after four years
• We offer a competitive total compensation package that includes monthly health insurance premiums, bonuses and long-term stock options for every employee
• We love to lift each other up through company-wide slack channels such as #puppiesandpets, #omnidian-wellness, #praiseandbooms and #sustainablefuture
• We have affinity groups to help employees feel seen and supported, such as Rainbow Array, BIPOC, Thriving Survivors, Vets at Omnidian, Black Lights Matter and Neurospicy R Us
• We are a passionate, mission driven team that believes in collaboration, mutual respect and trust. For examples, come Discover our Story!

Grow With Us

• We mentor and invest in our employees and prioritize them for future opportunities. Check out our Instagram reels to see a few career journey examples
• Internal candidates: Check out our advice on Internal Transfer: Job Application Process
• Here are the next roles in this career track:
• Principal, Software Engineering
• Manager, Software Engineering
• Senior Manager, Software Engineering
• We’re a fast-growing startup, which means we’re constantly reinventing processes, adding new products, and asking people to use all of their skills and talents. That means there’s gonna be a lot of opportunities for you to grow, which also means you will likely be stretched in ways you’ve never experienced in a job before. If you are resilient, determined, and not afraid of a big challenge, come apply.