Software Engineer 2

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

About New Relic

At New Relic, we deliver cutting-edge observability solutions that empower businesses with real-time insights into their software application and infrastructure performance. As an industry leader, our platform enables organizations to monitor, analyze, and optimize their systems for enhanced reliability and user experience. Join us in transforming observability and driving innovation in a fast-paced digital landscape.

Your opportunity

Organizations around the world depend on New Relic to help them build better software using data, not opinions. Logs are one of the fundamental pillars of New Relic's observability platform. The first step in understanding your system is sending logs and other telemetry to New Relic. Thousands of New Relic customers rely on their logs to detect and resolve issues by analyzing many petabytes of log data they sent using a wide variety of logging integrations. The Lead (Staff) Engineer assigned to Logging Integrations is responsible for delivering efficient technical solutions and high impact business results for the logging domain as a whole. If you are an experienced engineer interested in joining a fast growing group while providing strategic, technical leadership on tough problems and raising the bar for engineering, please read on

What you'll do:

• Define and influence the overall technical direction and strategy for logging integrations
• Drive complex cross-team projects and predictably deliver high impact business results
• Level up the teams you work with and improve the quality of the software you work on
• Design and build scalable, maintainable, and reliable data integration services and tools capable of efficiently handling high volumes of data across diverse configurations
• Follow and contribute to various open source projects that customers rely on to receive, process, and forward log messages while ensuring support across multiple tool chains

This role requires

• Good exposure with high volume data processing systems, data-intensive applications, or similar large scale products e.g. APIs, SDKs
• Your understanding and experience working extensively with various public cloud resources (especially aws) and cloud native technologies like Docker, Fluent Bit, Helm, Kubernetes, or OpenTelemetry
• 3+ years of experience working as a software engineer working in Java and/or Go with a strong computer science background and an aptitude for learning new languages quickly

Bonus points if you have

• Experience building and maintaining real-time tools to collect, process, and ship log data
• Experience building and maintaining high throughput pipelines and distributed systems
• Experience working on a data integration product, especially in the SaaS vendor space

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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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, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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