Senior Software Engineer (cloud/backend) at New Relic in Baltimore, MD

Our team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer who will contribute to creating, scaling and decommissioning our cloud environments. This position will report directly to a Senior Director and is available to work from home or any New Relic office.

What You’ll Do

• Diagnose and solve problems in high throughput services and distributed systems including taking care of coordination, concurrency, and resource efficiency.
• Coordinate with Data Platform teams to create, scale, and decommission cloud environments
• Build platform-wide observability focused on informing capacity and revealing our true customer experience

Your Qualifications

Must-haves:

• Extensive hands-on experience and proficiency in one or more of the following: Java, Go, Python, or Ruby
• Experience with Public Cloud Providers (AWS, Azure, Google).
• Exposure to CI/CD/DevOps, Terraform, Docker, and monitoring technologies.
• Ability to take initiative and scope work to deliver value iteratively, making meaningful design decisions, and driving work to completion
• Excellent communication skills both verbally and in writing with a passion to mentor, lead, and guide others
• Experience working with Kubernetes (k8s)

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience with Kafka or other data pipeline technologies
• Strong testing abilities. Consideration of both automated testing and monitoring to improve team efficiency and reliability of production services