Principal Software Engineer

Your Opportunity

Are you passionate about the intricacies of the various programming languages, auto-instrumentation techniques, data aggregation and formatting, streaming architectures, building client side software, and SDKs?

New Relic is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to lead multiple language, browser, and mobile agent teams through a highly impactful transformation, building a brand-new observability experience. This high-impact engineering position is a phenomenal opportunity to own and build a set of next generation experiences and capabilities for the company.

What You’ll Do

• Provide architectural guidance and direction across Products and Frameworks
• Partner with several lead software engineers to translate corporate strategy into group objectives, and architect technical challenges into cohesive strategies across New Relic’s suite of products
• Design and deliver high-quality solutions - Maintainable from reliability, supportability, scalability, performance, and cost perspective while meeting the present and future functional needs of our customers and business.
• Cross-pollinate best practices and patterns between teams, promote standardization and reuse. Proactively discourage bad practices and patterns.
• Actively build New Relic’s engineering bench strength and culture by mentoring, instructing, and guiding other engineers.

This role requires

• Overall 16+ Years and at-least 8+ years of technical leadership helping engineering teams thrive
• Deep experience with three or more of these languages: Java, Node, Rust, Go, Python, PHP, C, .Net, and Ruby
• Ability to collaborate and impact decisions at the interpersonal level
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Nice-to-have:

• Observability domain knowledge
• Experience engaging in open-source projects.
• Knowledge of or participation in the OpenTelemetry project.

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

Bonus points if you have

• Observability domain knowledge
• Experience operating containerized services (Kubernetes, Mesos/Marathon)
• Solid understanding of databases (RDS, MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Experience with configuration management tooling (Ansible, Terraform, or Puppet)
• BS/MS/PhD in CS (or equivalent).

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.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application or recruiting process, please reach out to resume@newrelic.com.

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

In compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work and to complete employment eligibility verification. Note: Our stewardship of the data of thousands of customers’ means that a criminal background check is required to join New Relic.

We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records based on individual circumstances and in accordance with applicable law including, but not limited to, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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