Senior Software Engineer - Open Source Java Team at New Relic in Portland, OR

• Work with the team to design, scope, and implement technical solutions with a focus on the meeting the needs of our customers. We solve tough technical challenges for a broad set of ecosystems and frameworks.
• Write quality code, so our customers can install our software on their production systems with confidence.
• Review Pull Requests and provide constructive feedback from your team and members of the community.
• Reproduce and fix issues surfaced through our technical support team and the community.
• Partner with your Product Manager and customers to analyze emerging projects, standards and evolving observability needs so you can make proactive recommendations on product direction.

Your Qualifications

Must-have:

• 5+ years experience that have provided you a deep familiarity of common Java technologies, frameworks, libraries and tools
• A desire to learn or apply your experience in concurrency, JVM tuning, class-loading Work, and bytecode manipulation
• An aptitude to tailor your day-to-day contributions to drive a variety of outcomes: this open source role encompasses not only writing code but also is a place for you to provide industry technical leadership. This might look like participating in community special interest groups, rapid prototyping, writing and evaluating specifications, blogging and/or giving conference talks.
• An entrepreneurial approach: Comfort with a high degree of autonomy with a strong ability to communicate with stakeholders and members of the community.
• A curious personality with an enthusiasm and capability to learn new technologies rapidly and “just in time”
• A passion for sharing your knowledge that encourages teammates to seek you out as a mentor. Actively mentor, pair and group program with other engineers to facilitate mutual growth.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with or interest in contributing to and running Open Source projects, specifically OpenTelemetry and other open observability APIs or standards