14 hours ago
Portland, OR, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$186k - $233k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction and make architecture and design tradeoffs for high-throughput telemetry ingest systems.
- Scope, estimate, and deliver complex multi-engineer projects from design through general availability.
- Write and ship production code while leading the engineering team.
- Evaluate and introduce tools, patterns, technologies, and appropriate LLM-assisted development practices.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, technical feedback, and career development.
- Communicate technical risks and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Own CI/CD, observability, operational health, and incident response for the systems led by the team.
- Identify and close gaps in tooling, documentation, and team coverage.
Requirements
- 7–10 years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years leading or serving as a technical lead for a team or major initiative.
- Deep fluency in Java or a comparable object-oriented programming language, with the ability to learn additional languages and frameworks.
- Experience operating stateful distributed services in production under unpredictable load and leading incident remediation.
- Experience leading architecture and design reviews for complex systems.
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD tooling such as Argo CD, event-driven architectures such as Kafka, and container orchestration such as Kubernetes.
- Experience with data modeling and query optimization for relational databases at scale.
- Demonstrated record of mentoring engineers and improving team output.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including communicating technical cases to non-technical stakeholders.
- Preferred experience with infrastructure as code across multiple environments and cloud providers, including Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Preferred experience with time-series or telemetry data and tools such as NRQL or PromQL.
- Preferred formal SRE practices, including SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning, or chaos and failure testing.
- Preferred secure-by-default design experience, OWASP familiarity, secure coding practices, or tools such as Snyk and SonarQube.
- Open source contributions are a bonus.
Benefits
- 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 eligibility.
- Flexible workforce model supporting fully office-based, fully remote, or hybrid work arrangements.
- Reasonable accommodation support and an inclusive workplace.
- Employment requires identity and work-eligibility verification and a criminal background check.
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About New Relic
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.