[Hiring] Software Engineer II - Query Gateway @New Relic

Role Description

The Data, Identity, & API Platform group at New Relic builds the foundation for all of our products: data ingest, storage, and query. As an engineer working on NRDB, you’ll be contributing directly to the proprietary telemetry database technology at the core of our business.

• Own the New Relic query gateway stack.
• Proactively participate in cross-functional committees to move the query gateway forward, ranging from collaborations with AI, Visualizations, and Data Processing teams.
• Build and maintain scalable distributed Java services and Petabyte-scale Infrastructure.
• Investigate and resolve critical performance, availability, and resiliency issues and risks in a multi-region, multi-cloud, multi-tenant distributed database.
• Work in an agile environment with a DevOps approach — the team builds and maintains their own software, including taking turns with being on-call.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in collaborative software development.
• Firm grasp of Computer Science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and modern software design and development methodologies.
• Self-starter with a strong sense of ownership over your code and commitments.
• Ability to go deep on the command-line and fix things when they’re broken.
• Experience working in Java, or equivalent experience in an alternate OOP language (C++, C#, etc).

Requirements

• Experience developing and operating within a 24x7 SaaS business.
• Experience or interest in database implementation, distributed systems, and/or query execution.
• Experience with observability tools and platforms (such as ours).
• Experience working in the public cloud (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP).
• Experience with container technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker.
• Experience working asynchronously in distributed teams.

Benefits

• Healthcare, dental, and vision benefits.
• Parental leave and planning.
• Mental health benefits.
• 401(k) plan and match.
• Flex time-off.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Volunteer time-off.
• Other competitive benefits designed to improve the lives of our employees.