Senior Software Engineer-NR Control Platform

New Relic
Portland, TX

We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint were looking for passionate people to join our mission. If youre ready to help the worlds best companies optimize their digital applications we invite you to explore a career with us!

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 identify understand and tackle issues analyze performance and optimize their software and infrastructure.

The NR Control Platform team at New Relic is looking for a Software Engineer to join our team. We seek someone who is passionate about delivering software solutions built using java and also using Rust in a multi cloud environment which is designed to be secure modular and fault-tolerant.

The role involves joining a highly engaged remote team on a tier 1 mission critical product. Youll be completing work assignments collaboratively with focusing on performance security global expansion regional resilience reliability scalability and cost efficiency.

We encourage asynchronous communication and independence but highly value knowing what is more appropriate for synchronous communications and striking a balance between the two. We value building strong human relationships between team members during our ceremonies and value in person meet ups when possible.


What youll do

  • Write high-quality code that adheres to security reliability and performance standards.
  • Build maintain and scale backend services and their support tools while adhering to service level agreements (SLAs) and technical constraints.
  • Consistently follow New Relics Engineering Standards applying best practices and guidelines to maintain a high standard of technical excellence across all tasks
  • Deliver high quality production code that helps drive our roadmap forward.
  • Consistently collaborate with the team on the execution of tasks and user stories.
  • Understand the services the team owns and be able to build deploy and rollback services.
  • Join the teams on-call rotation driving mitigation impact assessment incident recovery and long help identifying and implementing long term prevention.

This role requires

  • 6 years of hands-on professional experience with distributed systems concurrency and scaling in a production environment.
  • Strong experience in backend Java
  • Ability to learn adapt and collaborate with various programming languages (Rust Go Javascript)
  • Comfortable in a fast-paced environment focused on delivering production code at a regular cadence using Agile techniques tools and methodologies.
  • Having a collaborative work style that includes colleagues in important decisions and leads to shared code ownership. Be open to work collaboratively across geo locations (India Spain).
  • Thrives in a remote team setting using strong written and oral collaboration skills using tools such as Slack and Zoom.
  • Experience in designing and developing distributed systems / solutions
  • A desire to continuously learn new technologies and work across a range of DevOps tools.

Bonus points if you have

  • Experience with Kafka Kubernetes Observability platform Redis
  • Exposure to CI/CD/DevOps Terraform Docker and monitoring technologies.
  • Experience or familiarity with Rust programming language

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Qualified applicants may inquire about visa sponsorship (including transfer of a current H-1B visa) but the company does not support or sponsor O-1 F-1 or J-1 visas or candidates who require commencement of an H-1B cap case petition for future work authorization. This position is to be filled as soon as possible.

#LI-MM4 #Remote

The pay range below represents a reasonable estimate of the salary for the listed position. This role is eligible for a corporate bonus plan. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related factors such as an applicants skills qualifications and experience.

New Relic provides a variety of benefits for this role including healthcare dental vision parental leave and planning and mental health benefits a 401(k) plan and match flex time-off 11 paid holidays volunteer time-off and other competitive benefits designed to improve the lives of our employees.

Estimated Base Pay Range

$152000 - $190000 USD

Fostering a diverse welcoming and inclusive environment is important to us. We work hard to make everyone feel comfortable bringing their best most authentic selves to work every day. We celebrate our talented Relics different backgrounds and abilities and recognize the different paths they took to reach us including nontraditional ones. Their experiences and perspectives inspire us to make our products and company the best they can be. Were looking for people who feel connected to our mission and values not just candidates who check off all the boxes.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application or recruiting process please reach out to .

We believe in empowering all Relics to achieve professional and business success through a flexible workforce model. This model allows us to work in a variety of workplaces that best support our success including fully office-based fully remote or hybrid.

Our hiring process

In compliance with applicable law all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work and to complete employment eligibility verification. Note: Our stewardship of the data of thousands of customers means that a criminal background check is required to join New Relic.

We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records based on individual circumstances and in accordance with applicable law including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. New Relic does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with New Relic.

New Relic develops and distributes encryption software and technology that complies with U.S. export controls and licensing requirements. Certain New Relic roles require candidates to pass an export compliance assessment as a condition of employment in any global location. If relevant we will provide more information later in the application process.

Candidates are evaluated based on qualifications regardless of race religion ethnicity national origin sex sexual orientation gender expression or identity age disability neurodiversity veteran or marital status political viewpoint or other legally protected characteristics.

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Senior IC

Posted 2025-11-18

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