Production Engineer

7+ years of experience in software engineering with a strong focus on production systems and distributed architectures
Experience working on distributed systems at scale
Hands-on experience with Kafka/Redpanda, PostgreSQL or other SQL databases, MongoDB/NoSQL databases, Clickhouse or other OLAP databases
Deep understanding of release automation, CI/CD, and code lifecycle management
Familiarity with gRPC and experience building shared infrastructure components like middleware
A systems mindset—you understand the ripple effects of a single bug and know how to design to prevent them

Drive reliability and observability improvements across large-scale distributed systems
Serve as a force multiplier across all engineering teams by reducing downtime, improving tooling, and freeing up senior engineers from firefighting
Own and evolve our incident review process, leading postmortems and embedding learnings into tools, practices, and culture across the company
Collaborate with teams to improve release hygiene, including: Automating release gating (e.g., ensuring code bakes in staging for appropriate windows), preventing code from stagnating in staging environments, and implementing pre-prod automated test pipelines to catch issues early
Build and maintain Nominal’s gRPC middleware to ensure safe, observable, and performant service communication
Improve alerting, debugging, and monitoring to ensure production health and rapid root cause analysis

Experience working on distributed systems at scale
Hands-on experience with Kafka/Redpanda, PostgreSQL or other SQL databases, MongoDB/NoSQL databases, Clickhouse or other OLAP databases
Deep understanding of release automation, CI/CD, and code lifecycle management
Familiarity with gRPC and experience building shared infrastructure components like middleware