Principal Software Engineer
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Job Description
Your opportunity:
If you love to build distributed systems at scale and are a technical leader who is passionate about keeping your hands on the keyboard read on. We are looking for engineers who have spent years building and supporting large distributed systems that are innovative scalable reliable and performant.
It is an exciting time to be working in the Observability space! DevOps containerization cloudnative computing and new opensource standards like Open Telemetry are driving explosive growth in telemetry data. New Relic is a leader in this space that has been growing rapidly to meet this demand and to provide our customers with a worldclass solution for surfacing deep correlated and realtime insights across any telemetry source at enterprise volume from anywhere. We ingest petabytes of data per day billions of data points per minute serve billions of web requests and process millions of messages per second.
What youll do:
Principal engineers play a critical role in our engineering organization. We believe in small teams aligned around functionally related services.
- Engage embed and go deep with teams on highimpact projects.
- Do runahead research and build prototypes for new features or to optimize existing systems for performance or cost.
- Coach and mentor the teams you collaborate with and develop balanced maintainable solutions that leave teams healthier than before.
- Contribute to crossteam initiatives and promote standards and information sharing between teams.
What your playground will look like:
- 100s of predominantly Java services with one of the largest Kafka backbones in the world.
- A multicloud (Kubernetes) environment spanning thousands of nodes and accepting 10s of billions of HTTP requests a day.
- Our massively scalable purposebuilt telemetry database NRDB.
This role requires:
If you are considering this role you are likely a seasoned and esteemed contributor in your past endeavors and are looking for a new challenge.
- 14 years of professional software development experience
- Proven track record of senior technical leadership
- Knowledge of fundamentals required to build and operate highlyavailable software and data pipelines at scale including data structures architectural patterns distributed systems and supporting toolchains.
- Strong interpersonal skills including the ability to seek consensus provide technical leadership lead by example exhibiting patience and determination.
- Ability to rapidly come up to speed on new teams and services to make decisive organizational and technical impact.
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.
If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application or recruiting process please reach out to .
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 officebased 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.
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 thirdparty 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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Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full Time
