Lead Software Engineer - Golang

New Relic; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

New Relic Bengaluru is seeking a Senior Go Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale distributed systems. You will work in a multidisciplinary, agile DevOps team, delivering production-grade services and automation to improve deployment and reliability.

Candidates should have 9+ years of distributed systems experience, Go expertise, and cloud knowledge (AWS/Azure/GCP). Frontend React experience is a plus; strong collaboration and ownership are essential.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of hands-on experience with distributed systems, concurrency, and production-scale systems.
• Strong proficiency in Go (GoLang) as the primary language.
• 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.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Concurrency

React

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Agile / DevOps

On-call / production support

Collaborative / code ownership

Tools

Terraform

Temporal

GitHub Admin

Go CLI tools

DSLs

Open source contributions

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, maintain, and scale back-end services and their support tools.
• Participate in architectural definitions with a high degree of innovation and creativity.
• Create 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 being on-call.

Requirements:

• 9+ years of 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.

Good to 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, and test frameworks.
• Experience mentoring engineers and upskilling team members.
• Async programming skills: streams, event-driven architecture, reactive flows.
• Frontend experience with React.