Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure - Build Systems

About the role

Nominal is building the connected test and operations platform powering the world's most advanced hardware systems. This role involves developing the build infrastructure that every engineer at Nominal depends on, with an eye towards continuously optimizing the build performance and local devx to better scale with our growing engineering organization. You'll also own the developer infrastructure that keeps engineering velocity and release quality high, such as observability, pre-merge validation, and more.

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 our monorepo and engineering organization scale.
• Build and maintain observability, telemetry, logging, and metrics infrastructure using tools like Datadog, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
• Partner closely with product engineering teams to remove developer friction and improve day-to-day engineering productivity.

Skills

• 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 - You don't let perfect be the enemy of good, but you approach problems from first principles and build solutions that scale.
• Comfortable owning developer infrastructure end to end, from build tooling and CI/CD to release automation and engineering productivity.

Nice to have

• Datadog
• Grafana
• OpenTelemetry
• Audit logging
• Kubernetes
• Remote build caches
• Ephemeral development environments, or other developer platform tooling.

Benefits

• 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 $130,000 – $230,000 per year.