Build Systems Engineer: Scale Monorepos & CI/CD

Front Door Defense; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% coverage of medical, dental, and,

Unlimited PTO and sick leave

Free lunch, snacks, and coffee

Professional Development Stipend

In-office hardware lab with a $250项目 斤

Job summary

Nominal is hiring a Software Engineer to build, optimize, and maintain large-scale build systems with Bazel as the priority. You will improve CI/CD, release automation, and developer tooling to accelerate engineering velocity across a growing monorepo.

You'll own developer infrastructure end to end, including tooling, observability, and telemetry, partnering with product teams to reduce friction and boost productivity at speed.

Qualifications

• 4+ years building, optimizing, and maintaining build systems at scale.
• Experience with Bazel or similar build systems.
• Experience working in and scaling large monorepos.
• A track record of improving CI/CD performance, release reliability, and developer productivity using measurable outcomes.
• Practical, startup-minded engineering philosophy and ownership from build tooling to release automation.

Responsibilities

• Build, optimize, and maintain Nominal's large-scale build systems, with Bazel as the highest priority.
• Improve CI/CD pipeline performance, release automation, and release reliability.
• Own developer infrastructure that enables engineering velocity as the monorepo and engineering organization scale.
• Build and maintain observability, telemetry, logging, and metrics infrastructure using tools like Datadog, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
• Partner with product engineering teams to remove developer friction and improve day-to-day productivity.

Skills

Build systems

Bazel

CI/CD

Monorepos

Observability

Tools

Datadog

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Remote build caches

Job description

Nominal is hiring a Software Engineer to build, optimize, and maintain large-scale build systems with Bazel as the priority. You will improve CI/CD, release automation, and developer tooling to accelerate engineering velocity across a growing monorepo.

You'll own developer infrastructure end to end, including tooling, observability, and telemetry, partnering with product teams to reduce friction and boost productivity at speed.