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Salary: USD 126,000 - 158,000 / annual
Join New Relic's Container Fabric team as a Senior Software Engineer, playing a pivotal role in shaping the company's global internal platform. You will work at the heart of infrastructure, building resilient, scalable systems that empower engineering teams across the business. This role offers autonomy to drive platform evolution, work with state-of-the-art cloud-native tools, and push the boundaries of modern infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities:
- Platform Orchestration: Oversee and enhance a massive Kubernetes infrastructure platform, ensuring peak availability, performance, and reliability.
- Automation & Engineering: Evolve internal tooling to eliminate manual overhead and streamline platform delivery across global teams.
- Lifecycle Management: Manage Day 1 and Day 2 operations for Kubernetes clusters using modern scaling frameworks.
- Operational Excellence: Partner with a supportive engineering team to manage production environments and lead high-severity incident responses calmly and efficiently.
You will be given autonomy to drive platform evolution and work with cutting-edge infrastructure technologies. The role involves solving complex, large-scale challenges with tangible impact on high-availability platform orchestration.
Requirements:
- Infrastructure Expertise: Background in DevOps, Site Reliability, or Infrastructure Engineering managing production environments.
- Kubernetes Mastery: Deep working knowledge of K8s primitives (Deployments, StatefulSets, Services) and hands-on experience building custom Kubernetes Operators.
- Golang Proficiency: Strong skills in Go for systems programming and infrastructure automation.
- Production Focus: Proven experience managing production stability, monitoring, and resolving high-severity incidents.
Bonus Qualifications:
- Experience with cloud-native auto-scaling technologies such as Karpenter or Cluster API.
- Practical familiarity with Helm and GitOps tools like ArgoCD or Flux to manage continuous deployment workflows.
