# Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure

**Company:** [Nominal](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/nominal)
**Location:** New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA, Austin, TX, Seattle, WA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $130k – $230k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Bazel, CI/CD, monorepo, Datadog, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, build systems, release automation
**Posted:** 2026-07-28

> Build, optimize, and maintain large-scale build systems (Bazel priority) and developer infrastructure including CI/CD, observability, and release automation for a fast-growing hardware-software platform company. Requires 4+ years experience with build systems at scale and large monorepos.

## Job Description

## 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.

## Skills
- 4+ years building, optimizing, and maintaining build systems at scale.
- Experience with Bazel or similar build systems.
- Experience working in and scaling large monorepos.
- A track record of improving CI/CD performance, release reliability, and developer productivity using measurable outcomes.
- Practical, startup-minded engineering philosophy - You don't let perfect be the enemy of good, but you approach problems from first principles and build solutions that scale.
- Comfortable owning developer infrastructure end to end, from build tooling and CI/CD to release automation and engineering productivity.

## Nice to have
- Datadog
- Grafana
- OpenTelemetry
- Audit logging
- Kubernetes
- Remote build caches
- Ephemeral development environments, or other developer platform tooling.

## Benefits
- 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Unlimited PTO and sick leave
- Free lunch, snacks, and coffee
- Professional Development Stipend
- In-office hardware lab with a $250 project stipend
- Annual company retreat

**Compensation**
The base pay range for this role is $130,000 – $230,000 per year.

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