# Lead Software Engineer - Java at New Relic

- Company: New Relic
- What the company does: Backed by Accel and Insight.
- Company website: http://www.newrelic.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Portland, Oregon, USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-08
- Apply by: 2026-10-23
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/newrelic/jobs/5418578008
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/new-relic-lead-software-engineer-java/

## 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

Tags: Telemetry Data Platform