Deployment Systems Engineer

Nominal; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance

Unlimited PTO and sick leave

Free lunch, snacks, and coffee

Professional development stipend

In-office hardware lab with a $250 project stipend

Annual company retreat

Job summary

Nominal is seeking a Deployment Systems Specialist in Los Angeles, California, to deploy and support their advanced operational platforms. Candidates should have experience with production infrastructure, particularly in restricted environments, and demonstrate strong customer-facing skills.

The position offers a competitive compensation range from $120,000 to $230,000 annually and includes a range of benefits such as comprehensive insurance coverage and professional development stipends.

Qualifications

• Experience operating production infrastructure or distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience in restricted environments.
• Familiarity with compliance and security requirements.
• Customer-facing skills for technical issue resolution.
• Ability to document and standardize operational challenges.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and support systems in various environments.
• Travel to customer locations for deployment.
• Build repeatable deployment patterns across different environments.
• Identify infrastructure challenges and help shape roadmap priorities.
• Develop observability and automation tools.

Skills

Unix/Linux systems

Kubernetes / kubectl

MinIO / S3 object storage

Postgres

Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Mimir observability stack

Infrastructure as code

Job description

Nominal is building the connected test and operations platform powering the world’s most advanced hardware systems, from spacecraft and autonomous vehicles to next‑generation defense programs. Our platform gives hardware engineering teams a single place to ingest data, analyze performance, automate test execution, and collaborate across every phase of development, so they can move faster without sacrificing safety or precision. We’re a fast‑moving team that owns problems end‑to‑end, works across disciplines, and thrives at the intersection of hardware and software. We serve top‑tier commercial and defense customers, from autonomy leaders to next‑generation aerospace teams and performance engineering teams, alongside mission partners within the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force on programs where failure isn’t an option. We’re backed by Sequoia, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, and Lightspeed.

About the role

Deployment Systems Specialist

• Deploy and support Nominal in restricted and self‑hosted environments. Own runbooks, deployment documentation, and customer onboarding while troubleshooting issues in the field.
• Travel to customer locations including test ranges, manufacturing facilities, air‑gapped data centers. Partner directly with customer engineering and IT teams to ensure successful deployments.
• Build repeatable deployment patterns across cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem environments. Reduce complexity and improve reliability.
• Identify the highest‑impact infrastructure and deployment challenges. Surface risks early and help shape roadmap priorities.
• Build observability, automation, and infrastructure tooling that make deployments easier to operate and support.
• Make sound tradeoffs: balance speed, reliability, flexibility, and long‑term maintainability when making technical decisions.
• Take initiative, solve problems, and know when to scale up. Move quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality.

We’re looking for

• Experience operating production infrastructure, distributed systems, or developer platforms. Comfortable in Linux, the command line, Kubernetes, and independent troubleshooting.
• Hands‑on experience deploying and supporting systems in on‑prem, edge, or restricted environments. Government or classified experience is a plus.
• Familiarity with security, compliance, and accreditation requirements, including auditability, system hardening, and regulated deployments.
• Customer‑facing skills: work directly with customers on complex technical issues, build trust, and navigate tradeoffs while maintaining clear boundaries and expectations.
• Proven ability to turn operational challenges into repeatable processes, documentation, and deployment standards that scale.
• Systems mindset: think holistically about infrastructure while digging into root causes and technical details when needed.
• Proactive, resourceful, comfortable driving outcomes in ambiguous environments across teams.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS Clearance.

Skills that supercharge us

• Unix/Linux systems
• Kubernetes / kubectl
• MinIO / S3 object storage
• Postgres
• Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Mimir observability stack
• Infrastructure as code

Benefits / Perks

• 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Unlimited PTO and sick leave
• Free lunch, snacks, and coffee
• Professional development stipend
• In‑office hardware lab with a $250 project stipend
• Annual company retreat

Compensation

The base pay range for this role is $120,000 – $230,000 per year.

ITAR Requirements

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, the applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, a U.S. lawful permanent resident, an approved refugee, an asylee, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.