Software Engineer, Nominal
Storage & Compute
$120-180k
+ Equity
Mission-critical data infrastructure
Open for applications
Mission-critical data infrastructure
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$120-180k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To provide a robust, end-to-end solution that simplifies workflows, fosters collaboration, and seamlessly scales with the evolving needs of customers and partners.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years building and maintaining distributed systems with a focus on performance and reliability
- Strong with languages like Java, Go, or Rust, and comfortable writing clean, maintainable code
- Practical experience with cloud services (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and tools like Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform
- Understanding of storage solutions—Parquet, Druid, InfluxDB, ClickHouse, TimescaleDB, or similar— and experience with real-time data and telemetry systems
- Familiarity with technologies like Apache Arrow, Kafka, Spark, or Flink, plus experience with distributed databases
- Ability to explain your ideas clearly to others, whether they’re technical or non-technical
What the job involves
- Our team includes engineers and operators from SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril, Lockheed Martin, and NASA, all working toward a common goal: making it faster and easier for hardware engineers to push the boundaries of advanced technology safely and efficiently
- Our platform helps engineering teams accelerate test data review and analysis, scaling testing campaigns to save time and cut costs
- As a Backend Software Engineer, you will develop and maintain high-performance distributed systems for processing and storing telemetry data
- You will also help design scalable storage solutions, optimize system performance, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver effective data solutions
- Build and maintain distributed systems that process and store telemetry and sensor data
- Design scalable storage solutions to manage large, real-time datasets
- Improve system performance and reliability, making sure everything runs smoothly at scale
- Work with engineers from other parts of the company to support specific customer needs
- Help set the technical direction of the backend, sharing your experience to guide early career engineers
- Stay on top of new developments in data engineering and apply what’s useful to improve our platform
Our take
Whilst leading workflow platforms such as Monday and Basecamp are designed for general use, teams in more specific industries may benefit from experiences designed for their sector. Nominal has built a data analysis platform and workflow system tailored to the needs of engineering teams managing complex machines in industries such as aerospace and defense.
Nominal’s platform caters to engineering teams who develop, validate and monitor hardware, enabling them to build observability and control over mission-critical machines. It automates routine tasks and streamlines collaboration between team members, ensuring that all stages of a machine’s development have rigorous oversight.
Having only come out of stealth in 2024, Nominal’s path to market has been accelerated by several rounds of funding. This will be used to expand operations and business reach as it attempts to cut into a competitive market. With its target audience pitch well articulated, here’s to hoping the company can pull customers away from pre-existing, but more general, workflow and analysis platforms.
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Insights
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Apr 2024
$20m
SERIES A
Nov 2023
$7.5m
SEED
Total funding: $27.5m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with 100% of premiums covered
- Unlimited PTO /sick leave
- Free lunch, snacks, and coffee
- Professional development stipend
- Quarterly company retreats
Company HQ
Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA
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Leadership
Jason Hoch
(Co-Founder)Previously Software Engineer/Engineering Lead at Vercel, Newfront Insurance and Palantir Technologies.
Cameron McCord
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Investor at Lux Capital. Was also Head of Defense at Saildrone, Advisor at Applied Intuition, and worked in Product and Growth at Anduril Industries.
Bryce Strauss
(Co-Founder)Was an MBS and MBA Candidate at Harvard Business School, as well as Summer Associate at The Engine and a member of the Executive Leadership Development Programme at Lockheed Martin.
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