Runtime Infrastructure Engineer: Build Reliable Systems

Nominal; Washington (District of Columbia); Presencial; USD 179.000 - 310.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Unlimited PTO

Free lunch, snacks, and coffee

Professional development stipend

In-office hardware lab with stipend

Annual company retreat

Parental leave

Wellness stipend

Hardware sensor stipend

401(k)

Employee equity terms

In-office 5 days per week

Descripción de la vacante

Nominal is hiring a Software Engineer for Runtime Infrastructure to build the foundation that other engineering teams rely on. You will shape service frameworks, libraries, and APIs, focusing on reliability, observability, and secure defaults.

You’ll work across backend, frontend, platform, and deployment teams, with strong ownership and autonomy to ship robust systems. You’ll investigate concurrency, memory, and latency, develop runtime metrics and load testing tools, and translate findings

Formación

• 3+ years of experience designing and running production systems where performance, reliability, and operability matter.
• Experience designing libraries, frameworks, or APIs that other engineers build on; hide complexity behind simple interfaces and safe defaults.
• Hands-on experience with observability tools (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Datadog) including metrics, traces, and alerts.

Responsabilidades

• Build the foundation other engineers stand on: libraries, services, and APIs that are reliable, observable, and easy to operate from first commit.
• Investigate concurrency, memory, and latency issues; develop runtime metrics, profiling, and load testing, and turn findings into fixes.
• Collaborate with product, frontend, platform, and deployment teams; maintain strong ownership and ship-ready systems.

Conocimientos

Backend or full stack engineering

Rust/Java/TypeScript

Observability tooling

Concurrency & async

System design

Communication

Ownership

Herramientas

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Datadog

Descripción del empleo

Nominal is hiring a Software Engineer for Runtime Infrastructure to build the foundation that other engineering teams rely on. You will shape service frameworks, libraries, and APIs, focusing on reliability, observability, and secure defaults.

You’ll work across backend, frontend, platform, and deployment teams, with strong ownership and autonomy to ship robust systems. You’ll investigate concurrency, memory, and latency, develop runtime metrics and load testing tools, and translate findings