Lead 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 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 real-time insights so they can innovate faster. Our software delivers insightful observability tools across different technologies and distributed systems enabling software engineering teams to quickly identify understand and solve issues analyze performance and get the most of their software and infrastructure.

If you love scale and want to contribute to one of the largest and fastest growing big data platforms in the world wed love to hear from you: New Relic is looking for a passionate software engineer to join one of our core data teams in Hyderabad and work on the high-performance big data components that power New Relics world-class suite of software analytics products.

You will be at the heart of New Relics engineering process and will be building extending and supporting a core set of services which all of New Relics agents connect to every hour of every day processing millions of messages per second handling petabytes of data as part of a distributed team that values both collaboration and individual focus to solve challenging engineering problems.

What Youll Do

• Architect & Execute: Lead the design of end-to-end features from high-performance React-based interfaces to scalable Java/Python microservices.
• AI Innovation: Drive the integration of LLMs and AI agents into the New Relic ecosystem including building and maintaining MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers to bridge our data with AI models.
• Scale Heavily: Build and maintain highly available multi-threaded backend services that handle massive data throughput and concurrency.
• Technical Leadership: Act as a force multiplier. Youll lead system architecture discussions conduct deep-dive code reviews and set the standard for engineering excellence.
• Collaborate: Partner closely with Product and Design to translate complex data visualizations into intuitive performant user experiences.
• Mentor: Foster a culture of growth by guiding junior and senior engineers through complex technical hurdles.

Must-haves

• Experience: 8 years of professional software development experience with a proven track record in a Lead or Staff capacity.
• Frontend Mastery: Deep expertise in React (preferred) or Angular with a focus on state management performance optimization and data visualization.
• Backend Depth: Expert-level knowledge of Java or Python. You should be comfortable with multi-threading concurrency patterns and asynchronous programming.
• Distributed Systems: Extensive experience designing and scaling distributed architectures that operate under high load.
• AI/ML Familiarity: Experience working with LLM APIs prompt engineering or building MCP servers to enable AI-driven workflows.
• Leadership: Experience leading cross-functional projects and mentoring mid-to-senior level engineers.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Front End technologies (HTML Javascript CSS Angular React)
• Experience with Go or other high-concurrency languages.
• Knowledge of Big Data technologies (Kafka ClickHouse or Spark).
• Familiarity with Kubernetes Docker and modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Contributions to open-source projects or the AI/MCP community.

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.

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