Software Engineer 1

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, analyse performance and get the most of their software and infrastructure.You will be the part of Alerts team which is a cornerstone team of the New Relic platform, owning the end-to-end lifecycle of critical notifications—from initial trigger to delivery. We operate at a massive scale, leveraging a modern stack that includes Java, Node.js, GraphQL, and Kubernetes. As a Backend Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in architecting and scaling our next-generation alerting solutions to meet the demands of our global customer base.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 softwareThis role requires
* Bachelor’s degree, software development, engineering, or a related technical field
* 2+ years of experience working as a software engineer working in Java, NodeJS 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 team's 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.

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 [email protected].

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.

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