Manager, Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineering - R0000183
New Relic
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
We Looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a high-impact engineering team. You’ll be responsible for people management, technical direction, and delivery excellence. This role is ideal for someone who still enjoys being hands-on with code but is equally excited about mentoring engineers and driving outcomes.
What you'll do
- Lead and mentor a team of software engineers (1:1s, feedback, growth plans).
- Own end-to-end delivery of features and services – from planning to production.
- Drive technical design and architecture decisions for your team.
- Review code and ensure engineering best practices, performance, and reliability.
- Collaborate with Product to define scope, roadmap, and priorities.
- Run Agile ceremonies: sprint planning, standups, retros, etc.
- Identify and remove delivery blockers; manage risks and communicate clearly with stakeholders.
- Help shape engineering culture, processes, and standards.
Skills
- Expertise in Go for high-performance microservices, including instrumentation, concurrency, and performance tuning.
- Expertise in system design concepts both High level and Low level design.
- Deep understanding of extreme-scale, decoupled Cellular Architecture for exabyte-scale, sub-second latency data ingestion and stream processing.
- Operational experience with Kafka.
- Architectural and security depth across multi-cloud: AWS, GCP, Azure, and OCI.
- Expert-level Terraform for cloud management and codifying observability assets. Familiarity with Atlantis is valued.
- Familiarity with cloud networking (load balancers, CDNs) and security mechanisms.
- Expert technical knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker for cloud-native microservices and integration management.
- Experience designing robust CI/CD pipelines, proficient with Jenkins and ArgoCD-like tools.
- Strategic oversight of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Custom Authorization Strategies, Authentication Domains, and domain capture for secure user provisioning
This role requires
List objective, “must-have” criteria, such as the minimum # years of experience (except for roles in the UK), and required education, licenses, or certifications. Use New Relic’s Career Tracks as a reference.
- 10–12 years of total software development experience.
- At least 3–5 years in a Tech Lead / Lead Engineer / Engineering Manager role.
- Strong hands-on background in Go lang, Node.js/TypeScript, Python, Kafka etc.].
- Solid understanding of system design, microservices - Kubernetes, Dockers etc.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS / GCP / Azure) and CI/CD pipelines.
- Comfortable working with distributed teams across time zones.
- Strong communication, ownership, and problem-solving skills.
Bonus points if you have
- AI and Agentic Workflows Understanding
- Model Context Protocol (MCP): Architectural knowledge of this open standard for LLM-tool/data interaction.
- Practical experience utilizing AI agents and LLMs (Claude, GitHub Copilot/Co-pilot, ChatGPT) for automated analysis, predictive insights, and remediation.
Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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.
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