Senior Software Engineer

Your opportunity

If you are driven by innovation, passionate about technical excellence, and ready to lead a team of exceptional engineers, apply now for the position of Senior Software Engineer at New Relic. Let's embark on an exciting journey of innovation and technical advancements together!

At New Relic, we provide businesses with a state-of-the-art observability platform, leveraging advanced technologies to deliver real-time insights into the performance of software applications and infrastructure. As a company at the forefront of the industry, we enable organizations to monitor, analyze, and optimize their systems to achieve enhanced reliability, performance, and user experience. Join us in our mission to revolutionize observability and empower businesses in today's dynamic digital landscape.

What you'll do:

• Lead and drive the architectural design, development, and enhancement of core features and functionalities of our observability platform, leveraging Java, microservices architecture, and cloud technologies (AWS/Azure/GCP) to deliver highly scalable and reliable solutions.
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code for highly scalable systems, ensuring best practices in software development.
• Act as a subject matter expert and technical leader, guiding and mentoring a team of talented software engineers to achieve technical excellence, foster innovation, and deliver high-quality code.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product, design, and other engineering teams, to define, design, and implement robust, scalable, and efficient systems using Kubernetes for container orchestration, meeting the demands of our growing customer base.
• Champion and apply strong problem-solving skills and deep knowledge of data structures and algorithms to architect and develop effective, optimized solutions.
• Utilize and promote best practices for version control systems like Git (with platforms such as GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket) and build tools like Maven/Gradle within the development lifecycle.
• Stay ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies, actively researching, evaluating, and experimenting with innovative solutions to continuously enhance our observability platform's capabilities.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into robust technical solutions, advocating for sound architectural principles and promoting a collaborative, agile work environment.
• Proactively identify and address performance bottlenecks, lead optimization efforts, and ensure the stability, availability, and scalability of our platform.
• Encourage and contribute to a culture of continuous learning, improvement, and innovation within the engineering team, sharing knowledge, and promoting professional growth.

This role requires:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Development, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, with a proven track record of technical leadership and delivering complex projects.
• Deep expertise in Java and extensive experience designing and building microservices-based architectures.
• Significant hands-on experience with major cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, including services relevant to distributed systems.
• Strong understanding and practical experience with Kubernetes and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker).
• Proficiency with version control systems (e.g., Git) and hosting platforms (e.g., GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket).
• Extensive experience with build tools like Maven or Gradle.
• Demonstrated experience in architecting, designing, developing, and maintaining large-scale, highly scalable, and distributed systems.
• Exceptional problem-solving abilities and a strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, and system design.
• Strong computer science fundamentals and an aptitude for learning and applying new languages and technologies quickly.
• In-depth understanding of scalable distributed systems principles and microservices architecture, with the ability to design and implement solutions that meet stringent performance, reliability, and scalability requirements.
• Proficiency in message queuing systems such as Kafka (preferred).
• Passion for exploring new technologies and finding creative, efficient solutions to complex problems, keeping up with industry trends and advancements in observability and related domains.
• Excellent collaboration and communication abilities, with the capacity to work effectively with cross-functional teams, articulate complex technical concepts clearly, present ideas persuasively, and mentor other engineers.
• Proven ability to keep up to date with technologies such as AWS/Azure/GCP, serverless computing, Docker, Kubernetes, and microservices architecture among others.

Good to have skills:

• Experience with stream processing technologies, preferably Apache Flink or Spark Streaming.
• Familiarity with the Spring Boot framework.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools, particularly Terraform.
• Significant Observability domain knowledge (metrics, distributed tracing, logging, and alerting).

Bonus points if you have:

• Contributions to relevant open-source projects.
• Experience working with or building GraphQL schemas and APIs.
• Experience building and maintaining high-throughput data pipelines and distributed systems.
• Prior experience working on an Observability product, especially in the SaaS vendor space.

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.

Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. New Relic does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes, and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with New Relic.

Candidates are evaluated based on qualifications, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, age, disability, neurodiversity, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other legally protected characteristics. 

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