Senior Software Engineer - Golang & Kubernetes

As a Senior Software Engineer within the Container Fabric (CF) organisation, you will be a key driver in evolving New Relic's global internal platform. We are looking for an operations-heavy engineer with 5-8 years of relevant experience who can leverage open-source and custom tooling to orchestrate and maintain large-scale Kubernetes environments. You will play a "Captain" role, leading critical deliverables and mentoring junior engineers while maintaining the reliability of our global fleet.

Responsibilities:

• Architectural Leadership: Drive the design and implementation of internal tools, specifically focusing on Kubernetes Operators and Controllers to automate resource management.
• Platform Orchestration: Lead complex, large-scale infrastructure shifts.
• Operational Excellence: Take ownership of incident response, author comprehensive retrospectives, and implement systemic hardening to prevent recurrence using advanced overcommit strategies.

Requirements:

• Experience: 5-8 years in a DevOps, Site Reliability, or Infrastructure Engineering role.
• Kubernetes Mastery: Deep internal knowledge of Kubernetes and hands-on experience writing custom operators.
• Tooling Proficiency: Strong experience building production-grade tools and services, specifically for infrastructure automation.
• Operations-Heavy Mindset: A proven track record of Day 1/Day 2 operations for a large-scale Kubernetes fleet, handling high-severity incidents, and improving SLA compliance through automation.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Multi-cloud experience, including familiarity with cloud-native tools and managing OS migrations.
• Mentorship: Ability to lead projects as a "Captain, " providing technical direction and unblocking team members across different time zones.

A Huge Plus (Bonus Points):

We don't expect you to know everything, but we would love it if you have experience with:

• Golang: A basic ability to read, navigate, and understand Golang code.
• Advanced Autoscaling: Experience implementing advanced autoscaling strategies and efficiency optimisations using tools like Karpenter.
• Infrastructure as Code and Control Planes: Hands-on experience with Terraform or Crossplane and the Cluster API.
• GitOps and CI/CD: Experience deploying and managing platform infrastructure via Argo CD.
• Cloud Providers: Strong working knowledge of managing resources within AWS and Azure environments.