Senior Software Engineer Networking

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 were looking for passionate people to join our mission. If youre ready to help the worlds best companies optimize their digital applications we invite you to explore a career with us!

Your Opportunity

At New Relic we provide our customers with real-time insights so they can innovate faster. Our software provides deep observability across the stack enabling software teams to solve their customers problems accelerate digital transformation and make DevOps work.

You will be at the heart of the teams supporting New Relics infrastructure and will work on a team that provides global service mesh and load balancing solutions. We provide these services on-premises as well as using our multi-cloud infrastructure.

We support each other to do our best work through positive communication and continuous improvement.

What Youll Do

• Design build and operate ingress data plane.
• Drive high-impact platform initiatives.
• Maintain and evolve our DNS and CDN infrastructure (NS1 Route 53) alongside the proxy platform.
• Design systems using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform Helm ArgoCD) and ship incremental safe changes across a large fleet.
• Participate in on-call rotation and bake reliability into everything you build.
• Own and improve team processes and use innovation time to bring your own ideas to life.
• Collaborate across Product Design and platform partner teams.

Your Qualifications

Must-have:

• 3 - 4 years of professional experience with Go or Python programming.
• 3 - 4 years of hands-on AWS cloud experience.
• Strong Kubernetes experience at scale.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling (ArgoCD GitHub Actions Jenkins or similar) building pipelines managing rollouts and integrating automated testing and safety gates.
• Experience with networking protocols especially DNS HTTP gRPC TLS and TCP.
• You are comfortable automating with market tools (Terraform Ansible) or integrating systems using a high-level language (Go Python).
• Experience with cloud load balancers (AWS NLB/ALB or comparable)
• Experience with Global DNS Infrastructure (NS1 AWS Route 53) and CDN.
• You are excited not scared by very high throughput levels.
• You know when to deploy off-the-shelf solutions and when something more bespoke might be required.
• You ship incrementally and often.
• You have a fundamental need to learn and grow in your work every single day!

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with Envoy or comparable service mesh / L7 proxy platforms.
• Familiarity with observability tooling (New Relic Prometheus OpenTelemetry)
• Azure Cloud Networking experience.

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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. Were looking for people who feel connected to our mission and values not just candidates who check off all the boxes.

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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 theSan Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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