Software Engineer - Backend (API Platform)

About New Relic

At New Relic, we deliver cutting-edge observability solutions that empower businesses with real-time insights into their software application and infrastructure performance. As an industry leader, our platform enables organizations to monitor, analyze, and optimize their systems for enhanced reliability and user experience. Join us in transforming observability and driving innovation in a fast-paced digital landscape.

What You'll Do

• Develop and enhance New Relic’s API Gateway, which processes all GraphQL API requests, using Java.
• Engage in the design, development, and enhancement of our observability platform's core features, delivering scalable and reliable solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in designing robust, scalable, and efficient systems that cater to the needs of a growing customer base.
• Conduct regular research and experimentation with emerging technologies to enhance our platform's capabilities.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions by working closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, applying optimizations to ensure platform stability and availability.
• Promote a culture of continuous learning, improvement, and innovation within the engineering team, sharing knowledge and fostering professional growth.

Your Opportunity

• Bachelor’s degree in software development, engineering, or a related technical field.
• 2+ years of experience as a software engineer working with JAVA.
• Good understanding of JAVA frameworks and related design patterns.
• Experience in designing, developing, and maintaining large-scale software systems 
• Good understanding of scalable distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Familiarity with API ecosystems, including security, performance, and transport requirements.
• Passion for exploring new technologies and finding creative solutions to complex problems.
• Excellent collaboration abilities, with the capability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and communicate technical concepts clearly.
• Keep up-to-date with technologies like AWS/Azure/GCP, serverless, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Bonus Points

• Hands-on knowledge of Ruby and Elixir, with an understanding of their respective ecosystems.
• Contribution to open-source projects.
• Experience working with or building GraphQL schemas.
• Experience building and maintaining high-throughput pipelines and distributed systems.
• Experience working on observability products, particularly in the SaaS vendor space.

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Fostering a diverse, welcoming and inclusive environment is important to us. We work hard to make everyone feel comfortable bringing their best, most authentic selves to work every day. We celebrate our talented Relics’ different backgrounds and abilities, and recognize the different paths they took to reach us – including nontraditional ones. Their experiences and perspectives inspire us to make our products and company the best they can be. We’re looking for people who feel connected to our mission and values, not just candidates who check off all the boxes. 

If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application or recruiting process, please reach out to resume@newrelic.com.

We believe in empowering all Relics to achieve professional and business success through a flexible workforce model. This model allows us to work in a variety of workplaces that best support our success, including fully office-based, fully remote, or hybrid.

Our hiring process

In compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work and to complete employment eligibility verification. Note: Our stewardship of the data of thousands of customers’ means that a criminal background check is required to join New Relic.

We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records based on individual circumstances and in accordance with applicable law including, but not limited to, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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