Production Engineer, Nominal

• You have 7+ years of experience in software engineering with a strong focus on production systems and distributed architectures
• You thrive in high-leverage roles that improve how everyone else builds, ships, and fixes software
• You’ve led or played a significant role in incident response, building systems, and culture around continuous improvement
• You’re excited by complexity, not afraid of it, and you’re deeply motivated to make systems safer and teams faster

Desirable

• We're looking for a senior engineer to take on a high-leverage role focused on strengthening the foundations of our distributed systems and improving how the entire team builds, ships, and maintains software
• This role is ideal for someone who thrives in complex environments, has deep experience with incident response and production systems, and is driven to create safer, faster systems through smart infrastructure and process design
• Drive reliability and observability improvements across large-scale distributed systems
• Serve as a force multiplier across all engineering teams by reducing downtime, improving tooling, and freeing up senior engineers from firefighting
• Own and evolve our incident review process, leading postmortems and embedding learnings into tools, practices, and culture across the company
• Collaborate with teams to improve release hygiene, including: Automating release gating (e.g., ensuring code bakes in staging for appropriate windows), preventing code from stagnating in staging environments, and implementing pre-prod automated test pipelines to catch issues early
• Build and maintain Nominal’s gRPC middleware to ensure safe, observable, and performant service communication
• Improve alerting, debugging, and monitoring to ensure production health and rapid root cause analysis