# Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure - Build Systems 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: 2026-07-27
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.gem.com/nominal/am9icG9zdDpOHEz81MIOMWW0iXB-fhk5
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/nominal-software-engineer-developer-infrastructure-build-systems/

## About the role

We're looking for a Software Engineer to join Nominal's Developer Infrastructure team. You'll develop 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.

## What they're looking for

- 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
- 4+ years building, optimizing, and maintaining build systems at scale