Backend Runtime Infra Engineer: Observability & Performance

Nominal; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Sick Leave

Free Lunch

Snacks and Coffee

Professional Development Stipend

Hardware Lab Project Stipend

Annual Company Retreat

Parental Leave

Fertility and Family Planning Benefit

Wellness Stipend

Hardware Sensor Stipend

401(k)

Employee-Friendly Equity Terms

Job summary

Nominal is building and maintaining shared service frameworks, libraries, and APIs that provide reliable, observable, secure, and compliant defaults for Nominal’s services. We focus on performance, reliability, and operability to help engineers ship, debug, and operate systems.

Applicants should have at least three years of backend or full-stack experience with strong experience in Rust, Java, or TypeScript.

Qualifications

• Three+ years of backend or full-stack experience building and operating production systems.
• Strong experience in Rust, Java, or TypeScript.
• Experience with APIs or libraries, observability, concurrency, networking, and distributed systems.
• Strong communication skills and an ownership mindset.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain shared service frameworks, libraries, and APIs that provide reliable, observable, secure, and compliant defaults for Nominal’s services.
• Investigate and improve performance, concurrency, memory use, and latency.
• Create tools that help engineers ship, debug, and operate their systems.

Skills

Rust

Java

TypeScript

Production Systems

Observability

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Datadog

Concurrency

Async Runtimes

Networking

Distributed Systems

API Design

Performance Engineering

Security and Compliance

Frontend Architecture

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Datadog

Job description

Nominal is building and maintaining shared service frameworks, libraries, and APIs that provide reliable, observable, secure, and compliant defaults for Nominal’s services. We focus on performance, reliability, and operability to help engineers ship, debug, and operate systems.

Applicants should have at least three years of backend or full-stack experience with strong experience in Rust, Java, or TypeScript.