Nominal

Nominal

Software Engineer - Backend

New York, USA

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 630 days ago
JavaGoRustDistributed SystemsAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesKafkaHardware DesignCommunicationMentoring

About the role

  • We're backed by Sequoia, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, and Lightspeed.
  • This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy working close to the metal of distributed systems - reasoning about throughput, latency, data models, and failure - and who want to see their work directly enable real-world hardware.
  • Tackle hard problems around scalability, backpressure, fault tolerance, and data consistency in real-time systems.

Responsibilities

  • We're a fast-moving team that owns problems end-to-end, works across disciplines, and thrives at the intersection of hardware and software.

Requirements

  • Strong experience in Go, Rust, or Java, with an emphasis on correctness, clarity, and long-lived systems.
  • Hands-on experience designing or operating storage systems - time-series databases, columnar formats, or analytics engines (e.g., ClickHouse, TimescaleDB, Druid, InfluxDB, Parquet).
  • Experience with streaming or data processing technologies such as Kafka, Apache Arrow, Flink, or Spark.
  • Comfort reasoning about distributed systems tradeoffs - latency vs throughput, consistency vs availability, abstraction vs control.

Company info

  • About Nominal 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 serve top-tier commercial and defense customers, from autonomy leaders like Anduril and Shield AI to next-generation aerospace teams like Hermeus and REGENT, and performance engineering teams like Pratt Miller Motorsports, alongside mission partners within the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force on programs where failure isn't an option.

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