Lead Software Engineer-Kubernetes

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

Thank 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 maximize their software and infrastructure.

The Kubernetes infrastructure organization is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our Cloud Platform Engineering group. This organization develops and maintains the backend infrastructure for deploying and maintaining hundreds of Kubernetes clusters that host the applications of New Relic on the multi-cloud platform of Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. The infrastructure components used are open source and team members learn and contribute to them (example : Cluster API).

We encourage async communication and independence but we also build strong human relationships between team members during our ceremonies or in-person gatherings when possible.

What youll do

• Build maintain and scale Go clients / projects and their support tools.
• Contribute to New Relic infrastructure to develop and manage it.
• Contribute to Open Source and get the chance to grow your reputation and skills.
• Collaborate with team members to discuss and implement service improvements and research new tools and services to solve sophisticated problems properly.
• Ship incrementally and often helping the team to maintain a constant flow of feedback on its work.
• Work in an agile environment with a DevOps approachteams build and maintain their own software including participating in second-layer support rotations.

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Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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The pay range below represents a reasonable estimate of the salary for the listed position. This role is eligible for a corporate bonus plan. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related factors such as an applicants skills qualifications and experience.

New Relic provides a variety of benefits for this role including healthcare dental vision parental leave and planning and mental health benefits a 401(k) plan and match flex time-off 11 paid holidays volunteer time-off and other competitive benefits designed to improve the lives of our employees.

Estimated Base Pay Range

$181000 - $226000 USD

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.

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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Key Skills

Spring,.NET,C / C++,Go,React,OOP,C#,Data Structures,JavaScript,Software Development,Java,Distributed Systems

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 181000 - 226000