Your opportunity
At New Relic, we provide our customers real-time insights, so they can innovate faster. Our software delivers insightful observability tools across different technologies and distributed systems, enabling software engineering teams to identify, understand, and tackle issues, analyze performance, and maximize their software and infrastructure.
Telemetry Data Platform department is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our group in India.
What you'll do
- Drive the design, development, and enhancement of core features and functionalities of our observability platform, leveraging cutting-edge technologies to deliver scalable and reliable solutions
- Act as a subject matter expert, guiding and mentoring a team of talented software engineers to achieve technical excellence and deliver high-quality code
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement robust, scalable, and efficient systems that meet the demands of our growing customer base
- Stay ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies, constantly researching and experimenting with innovative solutions to enhance our observability platform
- Work closely with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions, advocating for best practices and promoting a collaborative work environment
- Be proactive in identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks, applying optimizations, and maintaining the stability and availability of our platform
- Encourage a culture of continuous learning, improvement, and innovation within the engineering team, sharing knowledge and promoting professional growth
This role requires
- Bachelor’s degree, software development, engineering, or a related technical field
- 8+ years of experience working as a software engineer working as a full-stack engineer with a strong computer science background and an aptitude for learning new languages quickly
- Expert on Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate and ReactJS
- Demonstrated experience in designing and developing large-scale full stack software systems, utilizing modern
- programming languages and frameworks
- Proven ability to lead and mentor a team of software engineers, guiding them towards technical excellence, and
- ensuring the delivery of high-quality code
- Passion for exploring new technologies and finding creative solutions to complex problems, keeping up with industry trends and advancements in observability and related domains
- Excellent collaboration abilities, with the capacity to work effectively with cross-functional teams, present ideas, and
- communicate technical concepts clearly
- Keep up to date with technologies - AWS/Azure/GCP, serverless, Docker, Kubernetes among others
- Expertise in architecting and building Web Services and databases (Cassandra, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Aurora)
- 5+ years hands-on experience of developing micro services
- 3+ years hands-on experience deploying and running workloads on AWS
Bonus points if you have
- Contribution to open source projects
- Experience with instrumentation and language agents used to collect telemetry data
- Experience with OpenTelemetry
- Experience working on an Observability product, especially in the SaaS vendor space
- Experience with FinOps industry and best practices
- FinOps Certified Practitioner
- Experience in Infrastructure Cost and efficiency Cloud cost optimization
