Software Engineer - Backend

About Nominal Engineering teams rely on Nominal to execute tests, analyze results in real time, collaborate across disciplines, and deliver resilient hardware in days, not months.

Nominal

Technology partner to the world's fastest hardware teams.

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nominal.io

201-500 employees

Software Development

Austin, TX

2022

Privately Held

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• Architect and evolve distributed systems that ingest, process, and persist high-frequency telemetry and sensor data.
• Design storage and indexing strategies for large, time-series, and event-driven datasets with strict performance and correctness requirements.
• Tackle hard problems around scalability, backpressure, fault tolerance, and data consistency in real-time systems.
• Optimize hot paths, reduce tail latency, and improve reliability as the system scales with new customers and use cases.
• Collaborate closely with product, infrastructure, and customer-facing engineers to solve domain-specific problems for cutting-edge hardware teams.
• Influence backend architecture and technical direction, mentor teammates, and raise the bar for system design across the org.

• 3+ years building distributed systems where performance, reliability, and operational simplicity matter.
• Strong experience in Go, Rust, or Java, with an emphasis on correctness, clarity, and long-lived systems.
• Deep familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and production tooling like Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform.
• 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.
• Clear technical communication and a bias toward ownership: you design it, build it, ship it, and operate it.

• Unlimited PTO and sick leave
• Free lunch, snacks, and coffee
• In-office hardware lab with a $250 project stipend
• Annual company retreat
• To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C.
• 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C.
• The base pay range for this role is $130,000 – $230,000 per year.