Data 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, 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
Do you love the transformative impact data can have on a business? Are you motivated to push for results and overcome all obstacles? Then we have a role for you.

What You'll Do

• Lead the building of scalable, fault tolerant pipelines with built in data quality checks that transform, load and curate data from various internal and external systems
• Provide leadership to cross-functional initiatives and projects.
• Influence architecture design and decisions.
• Build cross-functional relationships with Data Scientists, Product Managers and Software Engineers to understand data needs and deliver on those needs.
• Improve engineering processes and cross-team collaboration.
• Ruthlessly prioritize work to align with company priorities.
• Provide thought leadership to grow and evolve DE function and implementation of SDLC best practices in building internal-facing data products by staying up-to-date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in data engineering

This role requires

• Experience in BI and Data Warehousing.
• Strong experience with dbt, Airflow and snowflake
• Experience with Apache Iceberg tables
• Experience and knowledge of building data-lakes in AWS (i.e. Spark/Glue, Athena), including data modeling, data quality best practices, and self-service tooling.
• Experience mentoring data professionals from junior to senior levels
• Demonstrated success leading cross functional initiatives
• Passionate about data quality, code quality, SLAs and continuous improvement
• Deep understanding of data system architecture
• Deep understanding of ETL/ELT patterns
• Development experience in at least one object-oriented language (Python,R,Scala, etc.).
• Comfortable with SQL and related tooling

Bonus points if you have
Experience with Observability

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

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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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