Production Engineer

Nominal; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Nominal, a rapidly growing software company, seeks a Production Engineer to enhance their distributed systems. As an integral part of the team, you will focus on strengthening infrastructure and improving engineering workflows while working on cutting-edge aerospace solutions. Ideal candidates will have at least 7 years of experience and a drive for innovation.

Benefits

100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance

Unlimited PTO and sick leave

Free lunch, snacks, and coffee

Professional Development Stipend

Annual company retreats

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience focusing on production systems.
• Experience in incident response and building improved systems.
• Motivated to make complex systems safer and teams faster.

Responsibilities

• Drive reliability and observability improvements across distributed systems.
• Collaborate to improve release hygiene and automate processes.
• Own the incident review process and lead postmortems.

Skills

Incident Response

Production Systems

Distributed Architectures

Release Automation

CI/CD

Tools

Kafka/Redpanda

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Clickhouse

gRPC

Job description

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About Nominal

Nominal is a venture-backed company with offices in Los Angeles, Austin, and New York City. We build software and data solutions for organizations, testing and validating complex systems—think drones, robots, rocket engines, and satellites. Backed by top investors like General Catalyst, Founders Fund, and Lux Capital, we’re gaining momentum across the commercial and government aerospace and defense ecosystem, including direct work with the Department of Defense.

About Nominal

Nominal is a venture-backed company with offices in Los Angeles, Austin, and New York City. We build software and data solutions for organizations, testing and validating complex systems—think drones, robots, rocket engines, and satellites. Backed by top investors like General Catalyst, Founders Fund, and Lux Capital, we’re gaining momentum across the commercial and government aerospace and defense ecosystem, including direct work with the Department of Defense.

Our team includes alumni from SpaceX, Meta, Palantir, Anduril, Lockheed Martin, and NASA, united by a mission: accelerate hardware innovation by making testing faster, smarter, and easier. Our platform helps engineering teams scale their test infrastructure and gain insight from high-throughput, high-complexity test data.

We're looking for a senior 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.

What You’ll Do

• 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.
  
  

Who You Are

• You have 7+ 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.
  
  

Skills That Supercharge Us

• 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
  
  

Benefits & Perks

• 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance
• ️ Unlimited PTO and sick leave
• ️ Free lunch, snacks, and coffee
• Professional Development Stipend
• ️ Annual company retreats
  
  

$150,000 - $180,000 a year

This job description is written to capture a range of experience levels from 2 years to 15+ years, which is why you’ll see a wide band listed. Your actual base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on a range of considerations, including job-related knowledge and skills, education, prior experience, and other business needs. The listed salary range represents an estimate for base compensation only. Base salary is just one part of the total rewards package. Eligible employees may also receive highly competitive equity grants in the form of stock options, allowing you to share in the company’s long-term success.

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

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Software Development

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