At New Relic, we provide our customers with 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 APM+ product organization develops New Relic APM language agents, Mobile and browser agents, Otel APM agents and collector and APM experiences including Distributed tracing, Errors-in-box for on-prem and cloud customers. The APM Java language agent team develops and maintains instrumentation for all the JVM based languages/frameworks such as Scala, Kotlin, etc. We also develop tools to build, deploy and maintain our products.

As a software engineer, you will help us build and extend our open source Java agent and Otel agent products. We are searching for a motivated engineer who is ready for a career-defining role in their next opportunity. The opportunity to work from a remote office may be available depending on the applicant's location.

What you'll do

Design, build and maintain New Relic and Otel Java open source instrumentation agent and support tools.
Participate in architectural definitions with a high degree of innovation and creativity.
Create automation and tooling to make our systems more reliable and easier to deploy.
Work directly within a multidisciplinary team to help our customers and partners

This role requires

Bachelor's degree in software development, engineering, or a related technical field.
2+ years of experience working as a software engineer in Java/Scala and/or Kotlin with a strong computer science background and an aptitude for learning new languages quickly.
Proficiency in Java development, including object-oriented programming, data structures, and algorithms.
Familiarity with internals of JVM and libraries like ByteBuddy, ASM, or similar tools for modifying Java bytecode.
Strong understanding of open-source observability tools like OpenTelemetry, Jaeger and Prometheus.
Passion for exploring new technologies and finding creative solutions to complex problems, keeping up with industry trends and advancements in observability and related domains.
Excellent collaboration abilities, with the capacity to work effectively with cross-functional teams, present ideas, and communicate technical concepts clearly.
Keep up to date with technologies - AWS/Azure/GCP, serverless, Docker, Kubernetes among others.

Bonus points if you have

Contributed to open source projects.
Familiarity with the tech stacks mentioned above.
Understanding the value that build and test automation brings to a development team's efficiency and reliability and are passionate about applying these techniques to your projects.
Experience in technical mentorship and help with leveling up the skills of other colleagues on the team.
Experience with asynchronous programming techniques: streams, event-based flows, task queues, message queues.

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

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 applicant’s 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, a discounted employee stock purchase plan, and other competitive benefits designed to improve the lives of our employees.

Estimated Base Pay Range

$106,000—$133,000 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. We’re 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 resume@newrelic.com.

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.

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