Software Engineer
New Relic · Posted Oct 27
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 gives companies insight into their complex systems. The Container Fabric (CF) organization owns and evolves New Relic's global internal platform, with a focus on large-scale Kubernetes infrastructure. This role is an operations-heavy engineering position working on platform orchestration, high availability, and internal automation tooling.
What you will do
- Platform Orchestration: Work on a large-scale K8s infrastructure platform, ensuring high availability and performance.
- Automation: Drive the evolution of internal tooling to streamline platform delivery.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Experience: 3–5 years in a DevOps, Site Reliability, or Infrastructure Engineering role.
- Kubernetes Mastery: Deep internal knowledge of K8s primitives (Deployments, StatefulSets, Services) and hands-on experience writing custom Kubernetes Operators.
- Golang Proficiency: Proficiency in Go, specifically for infrastructure automation and systems programming.
- Operations-Heavy Mindset: A proven track record of managing production environments and handling high-severity incidents.
- Cloud Infrastructure: Hands-on experience with cloud-native scaling tools (e.g., Karpenter, Cluster API) and Day 2 operations of K8s clusters.
Preferred qualifications
- CKA Certification: Certified Kubernetes Administrator is highly preferred.
- Tooling: Familiarity with Helm and GitOps workflows (e.g., ArgoCD or Flux).
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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