Software Engineer 1

Job Summary

We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic, we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission. If you're ready to help the world's best companies optimize their digital applications, we invite you to explore a career with us!

Role overview

At New Relic, we provide our customers real-time insights, so they can innovate faster. Our software delivers insightful observability tools across different technologies and distributed systems, enabling software engineering teams to quickly identify, understand and tackle issues, analyze performance and get the most out of their software and infrastructure.

The Infrastructure product organization develops New Relic infrastructure instrumentation agents, next generation data processing and management services, vulnerability management, and security testing capabilities for on-prem and cloud customers. We work with data at a scale using a diverse tech stack (Go, Java, JavaScript, React, GraphQL, Kubernetes, many public cloud web services, and more). As a senior backend engineer, you will help us build and extend next generation solutions such as a control plane for customers to manage their data pipelines at scale.

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!

What you'll do

• Design, Build, maintain, and scale back-end services and their support tools.
• Participate in architectural definitions with a high degree of innovation and creativity.
• Creating 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.

This role requires

• Bachelor's degree, software development, engineering, or a related technical field
• 2 to 4 years of experience working as a software engineer working in Java and/or Go with a strong computer science background and an aptitude for learning new languages quickly
• Demonstrated experience in designing, developing, and maintaining large-scale software systems, utilizing modern programming languages and frameworks
• Proven ability to mentor a team of software engineers, guiding them towards technical excellence, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality code
• Strong understanding of scalable distributed systems and microservices architecture, with the ability to design and implement solutions that meet performance and scalability requirements.
• Passion for exploring new technologies and finding creative solutions to complex problems, keeping up with industry trends and advancements in observability and related domains
• Excellent collaboration abilities, with the capacity to work effectively with cross-functional teams, present ideas, and communicate technical concepts clearly
• Keep up to date with technologies - AWS/Azure/GCP, serverless, Docker, Kubernetes among others.

Bonus points if you have

• Contribution to open source projects.
• Familiarity with the tech stacks mentioned above
• Understanding the value that build and test automation brings to a development teams efficiency and reliability and are passionate about applying these techniques to your projects.
• Experience in technical mentorship and help with leveling up the skills of other colleagues on the team.
• Experience with asynchronous programming techniques: streams, event-based flows, task queues, message queues.