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Lead Software Engineer - Java

New Relic · Portland, Oregon, USA · On-site

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About New Relic

Backed by Accel and Insight.

About the role

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!

What they're looking for

  • 7–10 years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years leading or acting as a technical lead for a team or major initiative
  • Deep fluency in Java or a comparable OOP language, with the ability to ramp quickly across other languages and frameworks the team uses
  • Experience running stateful distributed services in production under unpredictable load, including debugging complex failure states and captaining incident remediation efforts
  • Experience leading architecture and design reviews for complex systems
  • Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD tooling (Argo CD or similar), event-driven architectures (Kafka or similar) and container orchestration (Kubernetes or similar)
  • Experience with data modeling and query optimization against relational databases at scale
More about this role

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

We're hiring a Lead Software Engineer for our team within New Relic's Data Platform, responsible for managing ingest into NRDB—New Relic's purpose-built telemetry datastore that ingests, stores, and retrieves metrics, events, logs, and traces at massive scale. Our team sits at the front of that pipeline, putting our work directly in the critical path for every signal that reaches a New Relic customer.

As a Lead, you'll set technical direction for the team: owning architecture and design decisions, weighing the hard tradeoffs, and leading a team of engineers through resolving complex problems in high-throughput distributed systems. You'll coach and grow the engineers around...

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