Senior Software Engineer - Kubernetes Orchestration - (R0000335) Bangalore

New Relic; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

New Relic is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Container Fabric organization to advance our internal platform. You will lead critical deliverables, mentor engineers, and ensure reliability across a global Kubernetes fleet.

The role emphasizes operations-heavy responsibilities, architecture leadership, and cross-team collaboration in a multi-cloud environment. Join a mission-driven team that values diverse experiences and world-class reliability.

Qualifications

• Experience: 5–8 years in a DevOps, Site Reliability, or Infrastructure Engineering role.
• Kubernetes mastery with hands-on experience writing custom operators.
• Strong experience building production-grade tools for infrastructure automation.
• Operations-focused with Day 1/Day 2 incident management and automation.
• Multi-cloud experience and familiarity with OS migrations.

Responsibilities

• Architectural Leadership: design internal tools, Kubernetes Operators, and controllers.
• Platform Orchestration: lead large-scale infrastructure shifts.
• Operational Excellence: own incident response, write retrospectives, and harden systems.

Skills

DevOps

Site Reliability

Leadership

Multi-cloud

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Crossplane

Cluster API

Argo CD

Karpenter

AWS

Azure

Job description

• Platform Orchestration: Lead complex, large-scale infrastructure shifts.

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

As a Senior Software Engineer within the Container Fabric (CF) organization, you will be a key driver in evolving New Relic’s global internal platform. We are looking for an operations-heavy engineer with 5–8 years of relevant experience who can leverage open-source and custom tooling to orchestrate and maintain large-scale Kubernetes environments. You will play a "Captain" role—leading critical deliverables and mentoring junior engineers while maintaining the reliability of our global fleet.

What You'll Do

• Architectural Leadership: Drive the design and implementation of internal tools, specifically focusing on Kubernetes Operators and Controllers to automate resource management.
• Platform Orchestration: Lead complex, large-scale infrastructure shifts.
• Operational Excellence: Take ownership of incident response, author comprehensive retrospectives, and implement systemic hardening to prevent recurrence using advanced overcommit strategies.

This Role Requires

• Experience: 5–8 years in a DevOps, Site Reliability, or Infrastructure Engineering role.
• Kubernetes Mastery: Deep internals knowledge of Kubernetes and hands-on experience writing custom operators.
• Tooling Proficiency: Strong experience building production-grade tools and services, specifically for infrastructure automation.
• Operations-Heavy Mindset: A proven track record of Day 1/Day 2 operations for a large-scale Kubernetes fleet, handling high-severity incidents, and improving SLA compliance through automation.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Multi-cloud experience, including familiarity with cloud-native tools and managing OS migrations.
• Mentorship: Ability to lead projects as a "Captain," providing technical direction and unblocking team members across different time zones.

A Huge Plus (Bonus Points)

We don't expect you to know everything, but we would love it if you have experience with:

• Golang: A basic ability to read, navigate, and understand Golang code.
• Advanced Autoscaling: Experience implementing advanced autoscaling strategies and efficiency optimizations using tools like Karpenter.
• Infrastructure as Code & Control Planes: Hands-on experience with Terraform or Crossplane and Cluster API
• GitOps & CI/CD: Experience deploying and managing platform infrastructure via Argo CD.
• Cloud Providers: Strong working knowledge of managing resources within AWS and Azure environments

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 [e-mail].

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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