Platform Staff Engineer

Omnidian

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Seattle, Washington, United States

Posted on: 2025-04-16

Category: renewables

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Intermediate

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Lower operating costs. Reduce asset downtime. Increase portfolio profitability. 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡.

𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐝
We don’t just drive performance—we back it up with the option to include a 95% performance guarantee. How does it work? If a system generates less than 95% of the annual energy we forecasted upon testing, we’ll cover the shortfall.

𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬
With Performance Assurance, our solar experts become an extension of your team so that you can grow and manage your portfolio at a fraction of the cost of hiring additional staff. You’ll have a dedicated portfolio manager—backed by a full team—tracking the health of your assets.

𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
Our AI-powered proprietary technology can detect and diagnose even minor issues that hinder performance. Using data from monitoring platforms and layering our technical capabilities, we filter out false alerts, allowing our team to respond immediately when action is required.

𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐋𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬
Our vetted nationwide field service network covers over 33,000 zip codes, giving you unlimited geographic growth potential. All work is coordinated and reviewed by our team for quality, so you’ll have peace of mind knowing your assets are in good hands.

𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠
We provide easy access to centralized reporting for all system and performance data across your portfolio. Our reports ease the burden of consolidating data from different systems and providers, streamlining performance reporting and annual financial and ESG reporting.

𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐬
Find the right complement to your business with our customizable Performance Assurance Plans. All plans include dedicated experts who work with you to drive the performance of your solar assets—so you can rest assured that your investments are protected.

About Omnidian

Omnidian, 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 Job

The 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.

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Diversity and Inclusion

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.

We invite you to be part of our mission to create a workplace that is inclusive and welcoming to all.

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

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.

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