New Relic

Associate Software Engineer - Java (Distributed Systems and Databases)

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10 hours ago
Portland, OR, USAMid Level

Base Salary

$98k - $123k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Develop new Java features for the NRDB telemetry database with a focus on performance and efficiency.
  • Implement scalable solutions and improve application performance in distributed systems.
  • Identify and act on opportunities to improve service reliability.
  • Participate in pager rotation and occasionally respond to system failures and on-call incidents.

Requirements

  • At least 2 years of professional experience in distributed SaaS software development.
  • Proficiency in Java, algorithms, data structures, and high-throughput software development best practices.
  • Deeper understanding of distributed systems and their core challenges.
  • Experience using the command line to manage, investigate, and repair broken systems.
  • Experience with databases such as MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB, Redis, or MongoDB.
  • Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP and with Kubernetes or Docker.
  • Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals.
  • Bonus: familiarity with networks, load balancing, observability and alerting patterns, Java Flight Recorder, and debugging distributed systems.

Benefits

  • Flexible workforce model allowing fully office-based, fully remote, or hybrid work.
  • Healthcare, dental, vision, parental leave and planning, and mental health benefits.
  • 401(k) plan and match, flexible time off, 11 paid holidays, and volunteer time off.
  • Corporate bonus plan and other competitive benefits.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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About New Relic

1,001-5,000 employees

New Relic builds a cloud-based observability platform for software and infrastructure teams, spanning APM, logs, metrics, traces, real user, and synthetic monitoring. It sells SaaS subscriptions and usage-based plans centered on its NRDB telemetry store. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company was acquired by Francisco Partners and taken private, and counts organizations like Domino’s and Ryanair among its users.

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