Senior Software Engineer-Java,Multithreading (FY26|R&D|#7452)

About Us

New Relic is a cloud-based observability platform that gives developers, engineers, operations, and management a clear view of what’s happening in today’s complex software environments. So they can find and fix problems faster, and deliver delightful experiences for their customers. That's why the world’s best engineering teams rely on New Relic to visualize, analyze, and troubleshoot their software. It’s the simplest, most powerful cloud-based observability platform, built to create more perfect software. All from one place.

Founded in 2008, we’re a global company passionate about building a culture where all employees feel a deep sense of belonging, where every ‘Relic’ can bring their whole self to work and feel supported and empowered to thrive. We’re consistently recognized as a distinguished employer and are committed to building world-class products and an award-winning culture. For more information, visit newrelic.com.

Your Opportunity

The Data, Identity, and API engineering group at New Relic builds the foundation for all of our products: data ingest, storage, and query. As an engineer working on the New Relic Database (NRDB), you’ll be contributing directly to the industry leading proprietary telemetry database technology at the core of our business.

We own our software from top to bottom and are directly responsible for its quality, reliability, and resilience. Each member of the team shares our pager rotation and will occasionally be on-call to respond to system failures; so we prioritize work that keeps the lights on and the pager quiet, in addition to the work that powers all of our new products and streams of data.

If the idea of working on systems that process millions of messages per second and handle exabytes of data excites you, then you may be an excellent fit!

Must-have

• First Class strategy and commitment to reliable and resilient software development.
• Skilled and effective async first collaboration proficiency supporting intercontinentally distributed engineering teams.
• Experience in high-throughput, multithreaded, multitenant, cloud-native development.
• An understanding of Computer Science fundamentals is very important.
• Our code is mostly written in Java. If you don’t know Java, that’s fine - but you should have experience with other object oriented programming languages (C++, C#).
• Ability to go deep on the command-line and fix things when they’re broken.
  
  

Nice-to-have

• Experience developing and operating within a 24x7 SaaS business.
• Experience or interest in database implementation.
• Experience working in the public cloud.
• We’re also moving to Kubernetes for container orchestration. If you know K8s, we want to know you.
• Experience working in distributed teams would also help. We are part of a group that is distributed across North America and Europe. An ability to work well asynchronously.
  
  

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.

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