Platform Staff Engineer

About OmnidianOmnidian, Inc. is a fast-growing Series C tech-enabled service company revolutionizing performance assurance for the distributed solar and energy storage industries.  Omnidian is building a more sustainable future for the planet through our passionate teams, our innovative technology, and by creating an amazing customer experience.
While we have employees across the country, we are looking to fill this particular role with someone based near our headquarters in Seattle who can commit to a hybrid schedule for more face-to-face interactions with team members.
The JobThe Platform Engineering Team at Omnidian is looking for a driven Staff Engineer who can work alongside a small group of engineers to define and build the future Infrastructure and DevOps at Omnidian. In this pivotal role, you’ll report to the Sr. Director of Engineering, leading efforts to architect scalable, secure, and efficient infrastructure, optimize developer experience, and influence strategic technology decisions. You will collaborate closely with other engineering teams to ensure our platform supports rapid innovation while maintaining reliability and security at scale. As the Platform team further grows, there will be an opportunity to grow into a management role. Interest in this trajectory in as little as a year is a plus.

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 new learn new concepts, tools, and technologies quickly
• 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