Software Engineer 1
New Relic · Posted Nov 5
Cloud-based application performance monitoring, telemetry analytics, and intelligent observability services
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About the role
New Relic builds an intelligent observability platform that provides real-time insight into complex distributed systems. The Infra+ Platform & Synthetics team owns critical backend platforms including Scheduler, Serverless, and Synthetics, using Java, Node.js, Go, Kubernetes, Kafka, GraphQL, and React. This backend-focused full stack engineer role will architect resilient, high-throughput microservices and data pipelines while building web interfaces when full-stack delivery is required.
What you will do
- Architect, implement, test, and scale resilient microservices and distributed backend systems using Java, Node.js, or Go.
- Design robust data models, efficient schemas, and high-performance APIs (REST, GraphQL, gRPC) capable of handling high-concurrency workloads.
- Implement asynchronous messaging, distributed caching, and stream-processing patterns (e.g., Kafka) to process high-volume telemetry and synthetic execution data.
- Own the full lifecycle of your services—from writing clean, tested code to setting up CI/CD pipelines, containerizing applications, and deploying to Kubernetes-managed cloud infrastructure.
- Create automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and telemetry instrumentation to ensure services are fault-tolerant, observable, and performant.
- Work directly within a multidisciplinary team in an agile environment with an operational ownership mindset (you build it, you run it, you monitor it).
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
- 3–4 years of professional software engineering experience, demonstrating strong backend engineering depth, practical frontend competency, and foundational DevOps capabilities.
- Backend Expertise: Strong hands-on experience designing, building, and operating production microservices and APIs using modern languages such as Java, Node.js, or Go.
- Data & Storage: Solid understanding of database design, query optimization, and trade-offs across relational (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL/document datastores.
- Frontend Competence: Practical ability to build, modify, and consume APIs within modern web applications using React, TypeScript, and HTML5/CSS3.
- DevOps & Cloud: Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker), CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar), and foundational cloud architecture (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Core Fundamentals: Strong computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, concurrency, object-oriented/functional design) and a disciplined approach to automated testing.
- Collaboration: Excellent technical communication skills, with the ability to participate in architectural reviews and partner effectively across cross-functional engineering teams.
Preferred qualifications
- Hands-on experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, Helm) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
- Experience with event-driven architectures, message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ), or stream-processing engines.
- Experience with distributed caching strategies (Redis, Memcached) and low-latency API optimization.
- Familiarity with distributed tracing, metrics collection, alerting platforms, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.
- Experience writing end-to-end integration and performance tests for backend and frontend services.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About New Relic
New Relic is an intelligent observability company that provides a cloud-based platform for monitoring, debugging, and optimizing software applications and infrastructure. Its platform helps developers, engineers, and enterprise leaders track real-time telemetry data to reduce system downtime and accelerate incident resolution. Formerly a publicly traded company, New Relic was acquired by private equity firms Francisco Partners and TPG in late 2023.
- Industry
- SaaS
- Company size
- 2500-5000 employees
- Founded
- 2008
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Private Equity-Backed
Funding
Private Equity-Backed · $6.88B raised
- 2023-11-09Private Equity Buyout$6.5B
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Revenue Officer
Chief Product Officer
Chief Marketing Officer
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