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Senior Software Engineer - Logging Platform

Req ID FY|R&D|#6

Location(s): Berlin, Germany; Düsseldorf, Germany; Frankfurt, Germany; Hamburg, Germany; Köln, Germany; Leipzig, Germany; Munich, Germany; Stuttgart, Germany;

Your opportunity:

Organizations around the world depend on New Relic to help them build better software using data, not opinions. One of the fundamental pillars of New Relic’s observability platform is Logs. The first step in understanding your system is sending logs and other telemetry to New Relic. Thousands of New Relic customers rely on their logs to detect and resolve issues by analyzing many petabytes of log data that is ingested, processed, transformed, analyzed, and enriched by New Relic’s Log Streaming services. If you are an experienced engineer interested in contributing to a team responsible for owning and improving the ingestion and processing experiences for New Relic Logs, please read on!

• Drive the design, development, and enhancement of core features and functionalities of our Log streaming Java services and APIs, leveraging cutting-edge technologies to deliver scalable and reliable solutions.
• Proactively and continuously improve reliability, security, cost efficiency, and quality of the backend Logging platform.
• Enhance the cloud infrastructure that hosts and runs our platform, in a multi-cloud provider environment.
• Improve team efficiency through automation.
• Act as a subject-matter expert, guiding and mentoring other engineers to achieve technical excellence and deliver high-quality code.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement robust, scalable, and efficient systems that meet the demands of our growing customer base.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions, advocating for best practices and promoting a collaborative work environment.
• Stay ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies, constantly researching and experimenting with innovative solutions to enhance our platform.
• Be proactive in identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks, applying optimizations, and maintaining the stability and availability of our platform.
• Encourage a culture of continuous learning, improvement, and innovation within the engineering team, sharing knowledge and promoting professional growth.

• Bachelor’s degree in software development, engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience working as a software engineer in Java and/or Go with a strong computer science background and an aptitude for learning new languages quickly.
• Demonstrated experience in designing, developing, and maintaining large-scale software systems, utilizing modern programming languages and frameworks.
• Experience working with various public cloud resources and cloud native technologies like Docker, Helm, Kubernetes, and OpenTelemetry.
• Proven ability to mentor other software engineers, guiding them towards technical excellence, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality code.
• Strong understanding of scalable distributed systems and microservices architecture, with the ability to design and implement solutions that meet performance, scalability, and cost requirements.
• 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, Kafka among others.

• Experience building and maintaining real-time data streaming and processing services.
• Experience building and maintaining high throughput pipelines and distributed systems.
• Experience working on an Observability product, especially in the SaaS vendor space.

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.

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New Relic currently has offices in Germany, Ireland, Spain, and the United Kingdom, and based on business needs may approve work in Belgium, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Switzerland, UAE, and other locations throughout the region. Some of our opportunities are limited to specific hiring locations. Talk with your recruiter about your goals.

Our hiring process:

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