Software Engineer- Backend - Ingest Streaming

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 identify, understand, and tackle issues, analyze performance, and optimize their software and infrastructure.

What you'll do

• Write high-quality code that adheres to security, reliability, and performance standards.
• Build, maintain, and scale backend services and their support tools while adhering to service level agreements (SLAs) and technical constraints.
• Actively participate in architectural definitions, bringing a high degree of innovation and creativity to design and implementation processes.
• Understands CI/CD for multiple services the team owns and is able to deploy, test, and rollback services.
• Consistently follow New Relic's Engineering Standards, applying best practices and guidelines to maintain a high standard of technical excellence across all task

This role requires

• 2+ years of hands-on professional experience with distributed systems, concurrency, and scaling in a production environment.
• Strong experience in backend Java
• Ability to learn, adapt and collaborate with various programming languages (Rust, Go, Javascript)
• Comfortable in a fast-paced environment focused on delivering production code at a regular cadence using Agile techniques, tools, and methodologies.
• Having a collaborative work style that includes colleagues in important decisions and leads to shared code ownership
• Thrive in a remote team setting, demonstrating strong written and oral collaboration skills, essential for maintaining high levels of teamwork and productivity in a virtual environment.

Bonus points if you have

• Experience with Kafka or another streaming system.
• Network or CDN experience.
• Proficiency with cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform; familiarity with serverless architectures, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Exposure to CI/CD/DevOps, Terraform, Docker and monitoring technologies.
• Contribution to open source projects.