Production Engineer, Nominal
$150-265k
More information about location
Unified software suite to test and operate hardware
Open for applications
Unified software suite to test and operate hardware
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$150-265k
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To provide the tools and infrastructure engineers need to deliver mission-critical capabilities at scale in the shortest time possible.
Role
Who you are
- You have 5+ 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
- Experience working on distributed systems at scale
- Hands-on experience with Kafka/Redpanda, PostgreSQL or other SQL databases, MongoDB/NoSQL databases, Clickhouse or other OLAP databases
- Deep understanding of release automation, CI/CD, and code lifecycle management
- Familiarity with gRPC and experience building shared infrastructure components like middleware
- A systems mindset—you understand the ripple effects of a single bug and know how to design to prevent them
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Site Reliability 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
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 is being used to expand operations and business reach as it attempts to cut into a competitive market. With its target audience pitch well articulated, the company has become the fastest-growing software platform in hardware development with 6X customer growth across aerospace, defense, energy, robotics and manufacturing.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Mar 2026
$80m
SERIES B
Jun 2025
$75m
SERIES B
Total funding: $182.5m
Company benefits
- 100% covered health, dental, and vision insurance (for you and family)
- $500/year hardware sensor stipend
- 12-weeks parental leave
- In-office 5 days per week
- 401K
- Employee-friendly equity terms
- Unlimited paid vacation
- Wellness Stipend ($100/mo)
- Fertility and family planning ($15,000 lifetime)
- Learning & development stipend
- Gourmet lunch provided daily
Company HQ
Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Jason Hoch
(Co-Founder)Previously a 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)Previously 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.
Salary benchmarks
We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.
Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.
Share this job
View 21 more jobs at Nominal