Software Engineer

Your opportunity
If you enjoy solving interesting technical problems, implementing best practices in design and architecture, and leveraging multiple languages/technologies, we want to hear from you! New Relic is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Developer Relations Engineering team.

The Developer Relations Engineering team is customer zero of the New Relic platform. Our team is chartered to build and maintain deployable applications that showcase platform features and innovations. You’ll need to be comfortable working on automated deployment pipelines, interpreting data patterns, and developing containerized cloud production environments.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain production-level demo environments and sandbox applications supporting sales and field engineering teams.
• Track and test product releases to build demo apps used across all organizations in the company.
• Create automation and tooling to make our systems more scalable and easier to deploy.
• Collaborate within a multidisciplinary team to help our customers and partners.
• Work in an agile environment with a DevOps approach—teams build and maintain their own software.

This role requires

• 4+ years experience in a programming language (e.g. Python, Java, Go)
• A passion for architecting well-documented easy-to-maintain applications
• Experience maintaining always-on production applications, providing on-call support, and responding to help tickets following SRE methodology.
• Strong understanding of testing principles and ability to thoroughly review and test own code changes merging, ensuring high-quality deliverables
• Knowledge and experience in developer tools, operational tools, and/or application management tools, including monitoring tools, build tools, and continuous delivery (CI/CD) tools
• Experience developing cloud native applications (AWS preferred)
• Good written communication skills and fluent in English

Bonus points if you have

• Experience in working with open source projects is a plus
• Knowledge of realistic simulated load patterns
• Hands-on experience with configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible or Terraform, Github Actions)
• Experience with front-end technologies (e.g., React, Javascript/ES6, and SASS)
• Experience with server-side technologies (e.g., Ruby, Elixir, or NodeJS)
• Experience working with a geographically-distributed team and completing work and objectives with minimal supervision

Fostering a diverse, welcoming and inclusive environment is important to us. We work hard to make everyone feel comfortable bringing their best, most authentic selves to work every day. We celebrate our talented Relics’ different backgrounds and abilities, and recognize the different paths they took to reach us – including nontraditional ones. Their experiences and perspectives inspire us to make our products and company the best they can be. We’re looking for people who feel connected to our mission and values, not just candidates who check off all the boxes. 

If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application or recruiting process, please reach out to [email protected].

We believe in empowering all Relics to achieve professional and business success through a flexible workforce model. This model allows us to work in a variety of workplaces that best support our success, including fully office-based, fully remote, or hybrid.

Our hiring process

In compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work and to complete employment eligibility verification. Note: Our stewardship of the data of thousands of customers’ means that a criminal background check is required to join New Relic.

We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records based on individual circumstances and in accordance with applicable law including, but not limited to, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. New Relic does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes, and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with New Relic.

Candidates are evaluated based on qualifications, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, age, disability, neurodiversity, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other legally protected characteristics. 

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