Production Engineer at Nominal

Austin, Texas, United States

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Not SpecifiedCompensation

Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level

Full TimeJob Type

UnknownVisa

Aerospace, Defense, Software, Data SolutionsIndustries

Requirements

Candidates should have 7+ years of experience in software engineering with a strong focus on production systems and distributed architectures, thriving in high-leverage roles that improve how everyone else builds, ships, and fixes software. They should have led or played a significant role in incident response, building systems, and culture around continuous improvement, and be excited by complexity, not afraid of it, and deeply motivated to make systems safer and teams faster. Experience working on distributed systems at scale, familiarity with Kafka/Redpanda, PostgreSQL or other SQL databases, MongoDB/NoSQL databases, Clickhouse or other OLAP databases, and a deep understanding of release automation, CI/CD, and code lifecycle management are also required.

Responsibilities

The Production Engineer will 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 the company’s incident review process, leading postmortems and embedding learnings into tools, practices, and culture, collaborate with teams to improve release hygiene including automating release gating, preventing code from stagnating in staging environments, and implementing pre-prod automated test pipelines, 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.

Skills

Distributed Systems

Reliability

Observability

Incident Response

Production Systems

Release Management

Automation

Testing

Software Development

Nominal

Software tools for engineering hardware systems

About Nominal

Nominal.io provides software tools designed specifically for engineering teams working with complex hardware systems. Their platform allows these teams to test and deploy hardware systems significantly faster than traditional methods, making it particularly beneficial for industries such as aerospace, defense, energy, and telecommunications, where hardware performance is critical. The platform consolidates data from various sources, enabling engineers to monitor and analyze their systems effectively in a secure environment. Unlike many competitors, Nominal.io focuses on a niche market with high demands for reliability, offering a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model that ensures clients have continuous access to the latest features. The company's goal is to enhance the resilience and performance of hardware systems, positioning itself as a key partner for engineering teams looking to improve their deployment processes.

Austin, TexasHeadquarters

2022Year Founded

$26.7MTotal Funding

SERIES_ACompany Stage

Industrial & Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Aerospace, DefenseIndustries

51-200Employees

Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Professional Development Budget

Quarterly company retreats

Risks

AWS's space accelerator program increases competition in the aerospace sector.

Reliance on government partnerships exposes Nominal to policy and budget changes.

Rapid tech advancements could render Nominal's offerings obsolete without innovation.

Differentiation

Nominal offers a secure platform for mission-critical hardware data management.

The company accelerates hardware testing and deployment up to ten times faster.

Nominal's SaaS model ensures continuous access to the latest features and updates.

Upsides

Recent $27.5M funding strengthens Nominal's financial foundation and market reach.

Partnerships with the U.S. government enhance opportunities in aerospace and defense.

Leadership experience from SpaceX, Palantir, and NASA boosts industry credibility.

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