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# Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure - Build Systems

- **Company:** Nominal, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $130,000.0 - $230,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Release Automation, Audit Trail, Continuous Integration, Datadog, Data Logging, Grafana, Caching, Kubernetes, Build Tools
- **Published:** August 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=711ff557a2f9e8c6

## About the Role

* 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.

## 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.


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