New Relic
observability
LeadSoftwareEngineer
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“Lead Software Engineer at New Relic. Skills: distributed systems, concurrency, production-scale systems, GoLang, React, Cloud platform knowledge (AWS, Azure, or GCP), design and implement distributed solutions. Design, Build, maintain, and scale back-end services and their support tools. Participate in architectural definitions with a high degree of innovation and creativity”
What You'll Achieve.
empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world; giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems; optimize their digital applications; provide our customers real-time insights; innovate faster; enabling software engineering teams to quickly identify, understand and tackle issues, analyze performance and get the most of their software and infrastructure; build and extend next generation solutions; build a brand-new observability experience; own and build a set of next generation services and capabilities
Industry & Context.
identify, understand and tackle issues; analyze performance; design and implement distributed solutions for complex, real-world problems
taking turns with being on-call, visa sponsorship is not available, criminal background check is required, export compliance assessment may be required
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Extensive hands-on experience with distributed systems, concurrency, and production-scale systems, Proficiency in GoLang (primary language — non-negotiable), Basic level skill Frontend experience with React, 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
Nice 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 up skilling team members, Async programming skills — streams, event-driven architecture, reactive flows
What You'll Do.
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
build and extend next generation solutions
build a brand-new observability experience
own and build a set of next generation services and capabilities
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Working directly within a multidisciplinary team; Collaborative engineer who drives shared code ownership and involves teammates in key decisions
Full Job Description
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! Your opportunity 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 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 inn
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