Lead Software Engineer

New Relic is looking for engineers who are interested in building a brand-new observability experience. This high-impact engineering position is a phenomenal opportunity to own and build a set of next-generation services and capabilities for the company. We are searching for a motivated engineer who is ready for a career-defining role in their next opportunity. We look forward to talking with you!

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, maintain, and scale back-end services and their support tools.
• Participate in architectural definitions with a high degree of innovation and creativity.
• Create automation and tooling to make our systems more scalable and easier to deploy.
• Working directly within a multidisciplinary team to help our customers and partners.
• Research new tools and services to understand complex scenarios and to also propose new features.
• Working in an agile environment with a DevOps approach; teams build and maintain their own software, including taking turns being on-call.

Requirements:

• 9+ years of hands-on experience with distributed systems, concurrency, and production-scale systems.
• Strong proficiency in GoLang (primary language, non-negotiable).
• Frontend experience with React - basic-level skill.
• Cloud platform knowledge: AWS, Azure, or GCP (at least one, deeply).
• Proven track record of delivering production code in an Agile environment.
• Collaborative engineer who drives shared code ownership and involves teammates in key decisions.
• Ability to design and implement distributed solutions for complex, real-world problems.

Good to have:

• Experience with Terraform (Infrastructure as Code).
• Familiarity with Temporal for workflow orchestration.
• GitHub Admin experience (managing orgs, teams, access controls).
• Experience building CLI tools in GoLang.
• Knowledge of DSLs (Domain Specific Languages).
• Contributions to open source projects.
• Passion for build and test automation, CI/CD pipelines, test frameworks.
• Experience mentoring engineers and upskilling team members.
• Async programming skills: streams, event-driven architecture, reactive flows.
• Frontend experience with React.