Platform Staff Engineer
Omnidian · Seattle, WA
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 (e.g. 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, WA area, we offer a vibrant and creative co-working space in the heart of downtown Seattle
- 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, parental leave, 401(k) administration, thoughtful PTO, and 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, check out our posts What Makes an Ethical Company? and Why We’re Proud to Be a Certified B Corp
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 roles in this career track:
- Principal, Software Engineering
- Manager, Software Engineering
- Senior Manager, Software Engineering
- We’re a fast-growing Series-C company, 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.
Total Compensation
Full base salary range $127,875 - $210,375
- Midpoint: $175,000
- Committed to Parity: We place candidates within the band based on professional experience, not negotiating skills, as part of our overall effort to avoid gender pay discrepancy.
- Comprehensive Benefits: We've got you covered with 100% of health insurance monthly premiums for employees, and 50% for dependents.
- Performance Bonus: Because exceptional work deserves exceptional rewards.
- Equity Stake: Join us in shaping the future and be rewarded for your dedication with stock options.
- Continuous Growth: Up to $500 annual learning reimbursement because investing in your development is investing in our success.
We strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will lead to a better environment for our employees and a better product for our customers. We are committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We value diversity and inclusion and are committed to ensuring our hiring and retention practices, as well as our office culture, reflects this value.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Omnidian is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to diversity in the workplace. We make employment decisions on the basis of merit and business need. We hire without consideration to age, ancestry, citizenship, disability, gender expression, gender identity, marital status, national origin, political activity or affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law.
