Senior Software Engineer

We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic, we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission. If you're ready to help the world's best companies optimize their digital applications, we invite you to explore a career with us!

Your opportunity

Join a backend engineering team focused on building and operating JVM-based services that ingest, process, and serve massive volumes of telemetry data. You’ll work on high-scale, low-latency systems that power mission-critical observability features used by engineers worldwide.

What you’ll do

Design, build, and operate JVM-based microservices (primarily Java and Kotlin) with a focus on performance, scalability, and reliability.

Own services end-to-end: architecture, implementation, deployment, monitoring, on-call participation, and continuous improvement.

Apply strong concurrency and performance practices: asynchronous programming, backpressure, efficient I/O, memory management, and GC tuning.

Build and evolve event-driven systems; work with Kafka for streaming, partitioning, consumer groups, and schema evolution.Instrument services for deep observability (metrics, logs, traces), define SLIs/SLOs, and use e

Experience with Kafka or similar streaming technologies (topic/partition strategy, consumer lag, idempotency, schema compatibility) strongly preferred.

Proficiency with REST/gRPC API design, service-to-service communication, and resilience patterns (timeouts, retries, circuit breakers).

Practical experience with containers and Kubernetes, and with CI/CD pipelines.

Track record of operating services in production: monitoring, alerting, incident response, and postmortems.

Strong communication skills, ability to write design docs, and collaborate across teams; proficiency in rror budgets to drive reliability.

Automate CI/CD, testing, and operational tasks; improve developer productivity with tooling and infrastructure as code.

Collaborate with product, architecture, and cross-functional partners to deliver customer outcomes.