New Relic

Lead Software Engineer - Java (Remote)

Remote Salt Lake, UT
USD 174k - 218k
Scala Kubernetes AWS GCP R Kafka API Spark Terraform Azure Java Streaming gRPC Kotlin Groovy Go Docker
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Description
Lead Software Engineer - Java (Remote)
Lead Software Engineer - Java (Remote)
Lead Software Engineer
Your opportunity
At New Relic, we love making tools for software and ops engineers. Our software helps customers answer their most important questions by allowing them to visualize, explore, and reason about their ops, application, and customer data.

If you love the scale and want to contribute to one of the largest and fastest-growing streaming data platforms in the world, we’d love to hear from you. We are looking for an experienced engineer and technical leader to join our Alerts teams within the Applied Intelligence group. 

If you’re ready for this job, you’ll have worked with high-availability, high-scale, production systems. Have Experience in building and scaling high throughput distributed services using Java and Kafka technologies,  You’ll have a solid understanding of Computer Science fundamentals along with excellent written and verbal communication skills. You are energized by delivering customer value and developing high-quality software solutions!

What you'll do
  • Work collaboratively on a team using agile practices to ship software incrementally with frequent customer feedback.
  • Collaborate with product managers and engineers who specialize in high-throughput data streaming systems, computing infrastructure, design, UIs, and customer-facing APIs.
  • Build multi-threaded Java services that consume, convert, aggregate, evaluate, and emit data on streaming platforms.
  • Optimize and scale back-end data processing services.
  • Develop and deploy your code to customers multiple times per day.
  • Be a part of a small team of engineers collectively accountable for the reliability and security of the team’s software.
  • Maintain a work-life balance that enables you to thrive by leveraging flex time-off, ten weeks of paid parental leave, and our DataNerds4Good volunteer time off program.
  • Help your teammates level up their skills so they can thrive and you can rely on them to be your backup.
  • Ability to successfully submit PRs to other teams codebases with low friction by providing the context the team needs to understand and approve the changes. 
  • Advocate strongly for improvements to our architecture or future direction, clearly articulating reasons why and assessing tradeoffs.

This role requires
  •  6+ years of experience in engineering roles, with a strong background in building and supporting large distributed systems that are innovative, scalable, reliable, and performant
  • Experience in a JVM-based language Java (preferred), Scala, Kotlin, Groovy, or Go
  • Experience building multi-threaded Java services and experience shipping reliable high-throughput services to customers in a production environment.
  • Familiarity with message queuing systesm & Patterns like Kafka (preferred), Flink, Spark Streaming, AMQP (RabbitMQ), gRPC
  • Experience working in an agile environment characterized by rapid change
  • Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to seek consensus, provide technical leadership, lead by example, exhibit persistence and tenacity

Bonus points if you have
  • Worked in organizations with a modern development process that includes full-stack autonomous teams and an open dialogue between engineering, product, and design.
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform
  • Cloud Computing Experience. Compute, storage, and analytics with AWS, GCP, or Azure
  • Exposure to observability tools and platforms (such as ours).
  • Familiarity with language dependency/package tooling such as Gradle/Maven

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 visit https://newrelic.avature.net/accommodations to submit your request.

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

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

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.

Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. New Relic does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes, and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with New Relic.

New Relic is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We foster a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, free from all types of discrimination, so our Relics can thrive. We hire people with different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.

Candidates are evaluated based on qualifications, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, age, disability, neurodiversity, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other legally protected characteristics. 

Review our Applicant Privacy Notice at https://newrelic.com/termsandconditions/applicant-privacy-policy.


Estimated Base Pay Range: $ 174,000 - $ 218,000
The pay range above represents a reasonable estimate of the salary for the listed position. This role is eligible for a corporate bonus plan. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related factors such as an applicant’s skills, qualifications, and experience.

New Relic provides a variety of benefits for this role, including healthcare, dental, vision, parental leave and planning, mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, flex time-off, 11 paid holidays, volunteer time off, and other competitive benefits designed to improve the lives of our employees.
Wage - midpoint
218,000
Wage - minimum
174,000
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