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Salary: USD 126,000 - 158,000 / annual
New Relic is seeking a Software Engineer II to join the Data, Identity, & API Platform group, specifically working on the Query Gateway stack. This role is part of the team that builds the foundation for all New Relic products, including data ingest, storage, and query capabilities. You will contribute directly to NRDB, New Relic's proprietary telemetry database technology at the core of the business.
The team owns their software from top to bottom and is directly responsible for its quality and reliability. All team members participate in pager rotation and will occasionally be on-call to respond to system failures. The work balances maintaining system reliability with enabling new products and data streams.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning the New Relic query gateway stack
- Proactively participating in cross-functional committees with AI, Visualizations, and Data Processing teams
- Building and maintaining scalable distributed Java services and petabyte-scale infrastructure
- Investigating and resolving critical performance, availability, and resiliency issues in a multi-region, multi-cloud, multi-tenant distributed database
- Working in an agile, DevOps environment where the team builds and maintains their own software
This is an excellent opportunity for engineers excited about systems processing millions of messages per second and handling petabytes of data.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 3+ years of experience in collaborative software development
- Firm grasp of Computer Science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and modern software design and development methodologies
- Self-starter with strong sense of ownership over code and commitments
- Ability to work at the command-line and troubleshoot complex issues
- Experience working in Java or equivalent OOP language (C++, C#, etc.)
BONUS QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience developing and operating within a 24x7 SaaS business
- Experience or interest in database implementation, distributed systems, and/or query execution
- Experience with observability tools and platforms
- Experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Experience with container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker)
- Experience working asynchronously in distributed teams across North America, Europe, and Asia
Note: Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
