Backend Systems Engineer – Distributed Telemetry

Mosaic.tech; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Unlimited PTO

Free lunch, snacks, and coffee

Professional development stipend

In-office hardware lab stipend

Annual company retreat

Job summary

Nominal is seeking a Backend Software Engineer; you’ll design and build the distributed infrastructure powering Nominal’s telemetry and validation platform. This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy working close to the metal of distributed systems — reasoning about throughput, latency, data models, and failure — and who want to see their work directly enable real‑world hardware.

You’ll own critical backend systems end‑to‑end, from ingestion pipelines to storage engines to performance tuning in

Qualifications

• 3+ years building distributed systems where performance, reliability, and operational simplicity matter.
• Strong experience in Go, Rust, or Java, with an emphasis on correctness and long‑lived systems.
• Deep familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and production tooling like Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform.
• Hands-on experience designing or operating storage systems — time-series databases, columnar formats, or analytics engines (e.g., ClickHouse, TimescaleDB, Druid, InfluxDB, Parquet).
• Experience with streaming or data processing technologies such as Kafka, Apache Arrow, Flink, or Spark.
• Comfort reasoning about distributed systems tradeoffs — latency vs throughput, consistency vs availability, abstraction vs control.
• Clear technical communication and a bias toward ownership: you design it, build it, ship it, and operate it.

Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve distributed systems that ingest, process, and persist high-frequency telemetry and sensor data.
• Design storage and indexing strategies for large, time-series, and event-driven datasets with strict performance and correctness requirements.
• Tackle hard problems around scalability, backpressure, fault tolerance, and data consistency in real-time systems.
• Optimize hot paths, reduce tail latency, and improve reliability as the system scales with new customers and use cases.
• Collaborate closely with product, infrastructure, and customer-facing engineers to solve domain-specific problems for cutting-edge hardware teams.
• Influence backend architecture and technical direction, mentoring teammates, and raising the bar for system design across the org.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go

Rust

Java

Cloud platforms

Storage design

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Job description

Nominal is seeking a Backend Software Engineer; you’ll design and build the distributed infrastructure powering Nominal’s telemetry and validation platform. This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy working close to the metal of distributed systems — reasoning about throughput, latency, data models, and failure — and who want to see their work directly enable real‑world hardware.

You’ll own critical backend systems end‑to‑end, from ingestion pipelines to storage engines to performance tuning in