As an Infrastructure Software Engineer, you will build and maintain developer tooling, design scalable infrastructure, support customer needs, and guide junior engineers.
About Nominal
Nominal is building the software infrastructure that powers the world’s most advanced hardware systems — from spacecraft and autonomous vehicles to next-generation industrial machines. Our platform ingests high-rate telemetry, validates complex autonomy software in real time, and helps engineering teams iterate faster without sacrificing safety or precision. We’re a small, fast-moving team of engineers and operators who own problems end-to-end, work across disciplines, and thrive on solving challenges at the intersection of hardware and software. As a dual-use platform, we're serving top-tier commercial and defense customers, including the U.S. Navy, United States Air Force, Shield AI, and Anduril.
We’re backed by top-tier investors — Sequoia, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, and Lightspeed Ventures — who share our mission to accelerate innovation in mission-critical systems. Our team brings experience from SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril, Applied Intuition, and other leading companies, united by a common goal: enabling hardware engineers to push the boundaries of advanced technology with speed, safety, and precision.
We're looking for an Infrastructure Software Engineer, where you'll develop and maintain the platform that Nominal builds upon. You will also collaborate on deployment infrastructure, AI adoption, and custom tooling required to accelerate our developers and clients. The mission is simple: accelerate and optimize every facet of our software infrastructure.
🚀 About The Role
- Build and maintain the developer tooling that makes Nominal unique.
- Design and scale our infrastructure across air-gapped, cloud, and on-prem environments.
- Work with engineers from other parts of the company to support specific customer needs.
- Help set the technical direction of Nominal’s internal development platform and grow junior engineers.
- Stay on top of new developments in infrastructure tooling, AI tooling, and hardware development.
⚡ Skills That Accelerate Us
- 2+ years building and maintaining developer tooling, infrastructure, and/or open-source projects.
- Strong at picking up new languages and comfortable writing clean, maintainable code.
- General experience with cloud services (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with CI/CD, monorepos, build tools, and general developer automations.
- Strong plus if you have some distributed systems experience
- Willingness to try out the newest tooling and open-source projects to accelerate our development cycle
- Ability to explain your ideas clearly to others, whether they’re technical or non-technical.
✨ Benefits/Perks
- 🏥 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 🏖️ Unlimited PTO and sick leave
- 🍽️ Free lunch, snacks, and coffee
- 🚀 Professional development stipend
- ✈️ Annual company retreat
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
ITAR Requirements
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. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.
Top Skills
AWS
Azure
Ci/Cd
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
Nominal Los Angeles, California, USA Office
Los Angeles, CA, United States
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