Lead Software Engineer - Java (Remote)

Atlanta, Georgia

Employer: New Relic, Inc
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Salary: Competitive
Job type: Full-Time
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.

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
Created: 2024-04-24
Reference: FY24|R&D|#6126
Country: United States
State: Georgia
City: Atlanta
ZIP: 30334

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