Lead Software Engineer

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, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission. If you're ready to help the world's 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 quickly identify, understand and tackle issues, analyze performance and get the most of their software and infrastructure. The Infrastructure product organization develops New Relic infrastructure instrumentation agents, next generation data processing and management services, vulnerability management, and security testing capabilities for on‑prem and cloud customers. We work with data at a scale using a diverse tech stack (Go, Java, JavaScript, React GraphQL, Kubernetes, many public cloud web services, and more). As a senior backend engineer, you will help us build and extend next generation solutions such as a control plane for customers to manage their data pipelines at scale.

What you'll do

• Design, build, maintain, and scale back‑end services and their support tools.
• Participate in architectural definitions with a high degree of innovation and creativity.
• Creating automation and tooling to make our systems more scalable and easier to deploy.
• Working directly within a multidisciplinary team to help our customers and partners.
• Research new tools and services to understand complex scenarios and to also propose new features.
• Working in an agile environment with a DevOps approach—teams build and maintain their own software, including taking turns with being on‑call.

This role requires

• Extensive hands‑on experience with distributed systems, concurrency, and production‑scale systems.
• Strong proficiency in GoLang (primary language – non‑negotiable).
• Frontend experience with React – Basic level skill.
• Cloud platform knowledge – AWS, Azure, or GCP (at least one, deeply).
• Proven track record of delivering production code in an Agile environment.
• Collaborative engineer who drives shared code ownership and involves teammates in key decisions.
• Ability to design and implement distributed solutions for complex, real‑world problems.

Bonus points if you have

• Experience with Terraform (Infrastructure as Code).
• Familiarity with Temporal for workflow orchestration.
• GitHub Admin experience (managing orgs, teams, access controls).
• Experience building CLI tools in GoLang.
• Knowledge of DSLs (Domain Specific Languages).
• Contributions to open source projects.
• Passion for build and test automation — CI/CD pipelines, test frameworks.
• Experience mentoring engineers and upskilling team members.
• Async programming skills — streams, event‑driven architecture, reactive flows.

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

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.