# Software Engineer - Backend at Nominal

- Company: Nominal
- What the company does: Nominal powers mission-critical engineering with advanced data infrastructure, real-time observability, and analysis tools — all in one collaborative platform. Backed by General Catalyst, Lightspeed and Sequoia.
- Company website: https://www.nominal.io/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: New York, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $130K to $230K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2024-10-29
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.gem.com/nominal/0a938c16-c497-4104-8196-137c38306d81
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/nominal-software-engineer-backend/

## About the role

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

## What they're looking for

- 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