Senior Software Engineer - Java, Backend

Your opportunity:

Organizations around the world depend on New Relic to help them build better software using data, not opinions. One of the fundamental pillars of New Relic’s observability platform is Logs. The first step in understanding your system is sending logs and other telemetry to New Relic. Thousands of New Relic customers rely on their logs to detect and resolve issues by analyzing many petabytes of log data that is ingested, processed, transformed, analyzed, and enriched by New Relic’s Log Streaming services.

If you are an experienced engineer interested in contributing to a team responsible for owning and improving the ingestion and processing experiences for New Relic Logs, please read on!

What you’ll do:

• Lead the design, development, and enhancement of core features for Log streaming Platform addressing both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Continuously improve the reliability, cost-efficiency, and quality of the Log Platform.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to design and implement robust, scalable, and efficient systems meeting evolving customer needs.
• Partner with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions, championing best practices and collaboration.
• Master the architecture and components of the Log Platform.
• Lead the end-to-end development of key platform features, ensuring their success.
• Make significant contributions to improving platform reliability.
• Actively contribute to and review code across platform components.
• Thoroughly understand and apply organizational security and quality standards.
• Achieve autonomy in on-call and support responsibilities.

This role requires

• Bachelor’s degree, software development, engineering, or a related technical field
• 5+ years of software engineering experience with Proficiency in Java and/or Go, strong CS fundamentals and adaptability to new languages.
• Proven experience with public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP) and cloud-native tech (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Kafka, OpenTelemetry, serverless), plus a passion for new technologies.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale software systems.
• Strong understanding of scalable distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Exposure to AI/ML, especially applying technologies like LLMs for data analysis or feature integration.

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience with real-time data streaming and processing services.
• Experience with high-throughput data pipelines and distributed systems.
• Experience with Observability products, particularly in the SaaS space.

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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