Lead Software Engineer - Java (Remote)
Portland, OR, United States
Your opportunity
At New Relic, we love making tools for software and ops engineers. Our software helps customers answer their most important questions by allowing them to visualize, explore, and reason about their ops, application, and customer data.
What you'll do
Work collaboratively on a team using agile practices to ship software incrementally with frequent customer feedback
Collaborate with product managers and engineers who specialize in high-throughput data streaming systems, computing infrastructure, design, UIs, and customer-facing APIs
Implement exciting new Alerting features that affect our entire pipeline, and also help reduce tech debt and retire old architecture, and...
Advocate strongly for architecture improvements, and provide a future direction, clearly articulating reasons why and assessing tradeoffs
Get up to speed with your team's local domain,and look to broaden your impact to Alerts
Develop and deploy your code to customers multiple times per day
Be a part of a small team of engineers collectively accountable for the reliability and security of the team's software
Maintain a work-life balance that enables you to thrive by leveraging flex time-off, ten weeks of paid parental leave, and our DataNerds4Good volunteer time off program
Share your leadership experience, philosophy, and approach with your team members, and be willing to learn from them
Ability to successfully submit PRs to other teams codebases with low friction by providing the context the team needs to understand and approve the changes
This role requires
9+ years of experience in engineering roles, with a strong background in technical leadership through driving complex projects including architecture improvements, and successfully delivering on your vision
You can identify problems, work with leadership to accept solutions, and drive the implementation and successful delivery, reliably
Experience in Java (Kotlin actually, but willingness is fine)
Experience delivering APIs consumed by internal and/or external customers
Experience with relational databases: complex sql, optimization, pagination, partitioning, scaling
Experience building multi-threaded Java services and experience shipping reliable high-throughput services to customers in a production environment.
Familiarity with message queuing systems & Patterns like Kafka (preferred), Flink, Spark Streaming, AMQP (RabbitMQ), gRPC
Experience working in an agile environment characterized by rapid change
Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to seek consensus, provide technical leadership, lead by example, exhibit persistence and tenacity
Bonus points if you have
Worked in organizations with a modern development process that includes full-stack autonomous teams and an open dialogue between engineering, product, and design
Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform
Front end experience or working knowledge: React, TypeScript, GraphQL, CSS
Cloud Computing Experience. Compute, storage, and analytics with AWS, GCP, or Azure
Exposure to observability tools and platforms (such New Relic)
Acted as a Product Owner during a project
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