If you love to build distributed systems at scale and are a technical leader who is passionate about keeping your hands on the keyboard, read on. We are looking for engineers who have spent years building and supporting large distributed systems that are innovative, scalable, reliable, and performant.
It is an exciting time to be working in the Observability space! DevOps, containerization, cloud-native computing, and new open-source standards like Open Telemetry are driving explosive growth in telemetry data. New Relic is a leader in this space that has been growing rapidly to meet this demand and to provide our customers with a world-class solution for surfacing deep, correlated, and real-time insights across any telemetry source at enterprise volume, from anywhere. We ingest petabytes of data per day, billions of data points per minute, serve billions of web requests, and process millions of messages per second.
The Infrastructure product organization includes dozens of engineering teams responsible for New Relic’s customer facing infrastructure monitoring experiences, agents, integrations across AWS, Azure, and other cloud services, initiatives building New Relic’s next generation platform capabilities, as well as vulnerability management and security testing capabilities in our nascent but fast-growing product security business. You will help us drive thought leadership, build and ship enterprise ready products, improve operational excellence across services you own, develop engineering talent, and support the exponential data growth and demand of our customers by providing innovative ways to operate and analyze their most important applications!
Principal engineers play a critical role in our engineering organization. We believe in small teams aligned around functionally related services. This engineer will lead teams within the Infrastructure product organization to develop great products.
- Engage, embed, and go deep with teams on high-impact projects.
- Do run-ahead research and build prototypes for new features or to optimize existing systems for performance or cost.
- Coach and mentor the teams you collaborate with and develop balanced, maintainable solutions that leave teams healthier than before.
- Contribute to cross-team initiatives and promote standards and information sharing between teams.
What your playground will look like:
- 100s of predominantly Java services with one of the largest Kafka backbones in the world.
- A multi-cloud (Kubernetes) environment spanning thousands of nodes and accepting 10s of billions of HTTP requests a day.
- Our massively scalable, purpose-built telemetry database, NRDB.
- 10+ years of professional software development experience
- Proven track record of senior technical leadership
- Knowledge of fundamentals required to build and operate highly-available software and data pipelines at scale including data structures, architectural patterns, distributed systems and supporting toolchains.
- Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to seek consensus, provide technical leadership, lead by example, exhibiting patience and determination.
- Ability to rapidly come up to speed on new teams and services to make decisive organizational and technical impact.
