Lead Software Engineer – Java

🕒 September 8

🌲 Oregon – Remote

🌲 Oregon – Remote

💵 $186k - $233k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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New Relic

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2008

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

🔒 Cybersecurity

Enterprise • SaaS • Cybersecurity

New Relic is a comprehensive monitoring and observability platform designed to help organizations understand and optimize the performance of their applications and infrastructure. It provides a range of tools for application performance monitoring (APM), infrastructure monitoring, and data insights, enabling users to track performance metrics, detect anomalies, and enhance user experience across various technology stacks. With features like AI monitoring, mobile app monitoring, and vulnerability management, New Relic empowers businesses to improve operational efficiency and maintain system robustness.

📋 Description

• Set technical direction for the Data Platform ingest team • Own architecture and design decisions for high-throughput distributed systems • Lead engineers through resolving complex problems • Work with product and partner teams to translate roadmap priorities into technical plans • Represent the team's technical point of view by contributing to standards and shared resources • Weigh performance, maintainability, and operational cost tradeoffs for ingest systems • Scope, estimate, and own complex multi-engineer projects from design to GA • Evaluate and introduce tools, patterns, and technologies, including LLM-assisted development practices where appropriate • Write and ship production code regularly • Develop engineers through code review, technical feedback, and career mentorship • Communicate technical risks and tradeoffs to stakeholders • Own operational health, including CI/CD, observability, and incident response • Identify and close gaps in tools, documentation, and team coverage

🎯 Requirements

• 7–10 years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years leading or acting as a technical lead for a team or major initiative • Deep fluency in Java or a comparable OOP language • Experience running stateful distributed services in production under unpredictable load • Experience debugging complex failure states and captaining incident remediation efforts • Experience leading architecture and design reviews for complex systems • Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure • Experience with CI/CD tooling such as Argo CD • Experience with event-driven architectures such as Kafka • Experience with container orchestration such as Kubernetes • Experience with data modeling and query optimization against relational databases at scale • Track record of mentoring engineers and giving feedback that improves a team's output • Strong written and verbal communication, including making a technical case to non-technical stakeholders • Visa sponsorship is not available for this position • Must verify identity and eligibility to work and complete employment eligibility verification • Criminal background check required to join New Relic

🏖️ Benefits

• Corporate bonus plan • Healthcare • Dental • Vision • Parental leave and planning • Mental health benefits • 401(k) plan and match • Flex time-off • 11 paid holidays • Volunteer time-off • Other competitive benefits • Flexible workforce model, including fully remote, fully office-based, or hybrid workplaces