Software Engineer II - Backend
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 quickly identify, understand, and tackle issues, analyze performance, and get the most out of their software and infrastructure. This is a great opportunity to shape the future of observability, work on complex and interesting problems, and empower companies to thrive in an AI-first world.
This position is for the Distributed Tracing Pipeline team. You will be building, improving, and maintaining a distributed service architecture capable of ingesting large volumes of data, analyzing spans and traces, and publishing them downstream so the UI can query this data to offer an exceptional experience to our customers.
We work with data at scale, and our pipeline is built with a diverse tech stack (Kotlin, Java, Kafka, Redis, public cloud services, and more). You will work with a team of talented engineers, solving complex distributed system challenges and delivering solutions for our customers. If you're passionate about scale and want to contribute to one of the largest and fastest-growing observability platforms in the market, we want to hear from you. We are a fast-growing software company that cares about our product and culture.
What you'll do
Build, maintain, and scale backend services and their support tools
Participate in architectural definitions with a high degree of innovation and creativity
Work closely with product and experience teams to understand product specifications and influence the roadmap for the distributed tracing product at New Relic
Create automation and tooling to make our systems more scalable and easier to deploy
Work in an agile environment with a DevOps approach, teams build and maintain their own software, including participating in on-call rotations
Use AI tools to accelerate your development workflow, from writing and reviewing code to investigating production issues and help the team adopt what works
Embrace a culture of technical excellence and shared knowledge
This role requires
Experience with distributed systems, concurrency, and scaling in production environments
Strong experience writing software in OOP languages (Kotlin, Java, Go, etc.) and comfort adapting to different languages and frameworks
Familiarity with asynchronous programming techniques: streams, event-based flows, task queues, message queues
Comfort working in a fast-paced environment focused on delivering production code at a regular cadence using Agile techniques, tools, and methodologies
A collaborative work style that includes colleagues in important decisions and leads to shared code ownership
Adaptability in a rapidly changing industry, curiosity about AI and readiness to enhance your development workflow
Proficiency in English
Bonus points if you have
Contributions to open source projects
Understanding of the value that build and test automation brings to development team efficiency and reliability, with passion for applying these techniques
Experience with OpenTelemetry or related industry knowledge
Experience in technical mentorship and supporting colleagues' skill development
Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.