Lead Software Engineer - Java (Remote)

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 seasoned technical leader to join our Alerts teams within the Applied Intelligence group. 

If you’re ready for this position, you’ll have a track record of leading high visibility, critical projects that span multiple teams. You’ll have driven architectural improvements, from concepts to POCs to production delivery, all with your customers’ experience and reliability top of mind. You’ll have debated public-facing API schema designs and insisted that internal API designers consult with front end developers early in the design process. You’ll have experience with high throughput, distributed systems based on Java and Kafka technologies (ideally).

We’re looking for a highly technical leader who will identify and drive system improvements, and who can develop technical solutions to complex customer problems, create the execution plan to deliver said solution, and do the hands on coding too. If you’re that person, you’ll start on a team of experienced engineers, and be looking for additional challenges as soon as you’ve mastered your local domain.

• 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
• Implement exciting new Alerting features that affect our entire pipeline, and also help reduce tech debt and retire old architecture, and…
• Advocate strongly for architecture improvements, and provide a future direction, clearly articulating reasons why and assessing tradeoffs
• Get up to speed with your team’s local domain,and look to broaden your impact to Alerts
• 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
• Share your leadership experience, philosophy, and approach with your team members, and be willing to learn from them
• 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 

• 9+ years of experience in engineering roles, with a strong background in technical leadership through driving complex projects including architecture improvements, and successfully delivering on your vision
• You can identify problems, work with leadership to accept solutions, and drive the implementation and successful delivery, reliably
• Experience in Java (Kotlin actually, but willingness is fine)
• Experience delivering APIs consumed by internal and/or external customers
• Experience with relational databases: complex sql, optimization, pagination, partitioning, scaling
• Experience building multi-threaded Java services and experience shipping reliable high-throughput services to customers in a production environment.
• Familiarity with message queuing systems & 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

• 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
• Front end experience or working knowledge: React, TypeScript, GraphQL, CSS
• Cloud Computing Experience. Compute, storage, and analytics with AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Exposure to observability tools and platforms (such New Relic)
• Acted as a Product Owner during a project