Sr. Manager, Software Engineering - Logging UI

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

As a Senior Manager for the Logging UI team, you will lead a talented group of engineers responsible for building the user interface that millions of developers rely on to understand their log data. This is a critical part of our observability platform, and your leadership will directly impact our customers' ability to troubleshoot issues, analyze trends, and gain deep insights from their systems.

You'll have the opportunity to guide the team's technical and product strategy, mentor and grow engineering talent, and foster a culture of innovation, quality, and high performance. This is a key leadership role where you will act as the bridge between high-level business strategy and technical execution, ensuring your team's work delivers maximum value to our users and the business.

What you'll do

• Lead and Mentor: Manage and develop a team of software engineers, fostering their career growth through 1:1s, coaching, and performance management.

• Drive Execution: Oversee the team's software development lifecycle, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery of the product roadmap and managing the backlog of features and bug fixes.

• Partner on Product Strategy and Vision: Collaborate closely with Product Management, Design, and other engineering leaders to define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Logging UI.

• Drive Technical Strategy and Innovation: Define and execute the long-term technical vision for the team, making key architectural decisions, and creating an environment that encourages innovation and experimentation.

• Champion Engineering Excellence: Drive continuous improvement in engineering practices, processes, and quality. Promote best practices in software engineering, participate in design reviews, and ensure the creation of scalable and maintainable solutions.

• Foster a Healthy Team Culture: Build and maintain a positive, inclusive, and high-performance team environment where engineers feel empowered and motivated.

This role requires

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5 years in a people management role leading software teams.

• Proven experience leading the development of complex, data-intensive web applications.

• Demonstrated experience in defining and driving the technical strategy for a product or team, especially when balancing and prioritizing incoming requests with limited capacity

• Excellent communication skills and experience collaborating with cross-functional teams (Product, Design, etc.).

• A deep understanding of Agile development methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) and modern DevOps practices.

• A passion for mentoring engineers and a track record of building successful, healthy teams.

Bonus points if you have

• Experience in the observability, monitoring, or logging space

• Experience with spec-driven development and transforming teams to an AI-driven SDLC

• Familiarity with modern front-end technologies and frameworks (e.g., React, TypeScript, GraphQL)

• Experience with data visualization libraries

• Experience working in a remote or distributed team environment

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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The pay range below represents a reasonable estimate of the salary for the listed position. This role is eligible for a corporate bonus plan. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related factors such as an applicant’s skills, qualifications, and experience.

New Relic provides a variety of benefits for this role, including healthcare, dental, vision, parental leave and planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, flex time-off, 11 paid holidays, volunteer time-off, and other competitive benefits designed to improve the lives of our employees.

Estimated Base Pay Range
$207,000—$280,000 USD

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.

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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

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