Associate Software Engineer- Infrastructure

New Relic, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 98,000 - 123,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Dental

Vision

Parental leave

Mental health benefits

401(k) plan & match

Flexible time off

11 paid holidays

Volunteer time off

Job summary

New Relic, Inc. is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to design and operate a scalable ingress data plane, ensuring stability and performance of our global service mesh and load balancing solutions.

You will craft automated, IaC-driven deployments and collaborate with product and platform teams to drive cross-team excellence. You will leverage Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines to accelerate safe changes, while expanding our DNS/CDN footprint and improving observability across

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional Go or Python coding experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on AWS cloud experience.
• Hands-on with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and pipelines.
• Strong networking fundamentals (DNS, HTTP, TCP).
• Experience with Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate a scalable, resilient ingress data plane for global service mesh and load balancing.
• Improve DNS and CDN infrastructure to enable high performance at scale.
• Use automation and infrastructure-as-code to accelerate safe, incremental deployments.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and partner platforms to break down silos and enable cross-team excellence.
• Support engineering teams across the stack to deliver real-time insights.

Skills

Go or Python programming

AWS cloud experience

CI/CD tooling

Networking fundamentals

Kubernetes and IaC

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Terraform

Kubernetes

Envoy

Job description

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

At New Relic, we provide our customers with real-time insights, so they can innovate faster. Our software provides deep observability across the stack, enabling software teams to solve their customer’s problems, accelerate digital transformation, and make DevOps work.

You will be at the heart of the teams supporting New Relic’s infrastructure and will work on a team that provides global service mesh and load balancing solutions. We provide these services on-premises, as well as using our multi-cloud infrastructure.

We support each other to do our best work through positive communication and continuous improvement.

What You’ll Do

As a key member of our Infrastructure team, you will design and operate a scalable, resilient ingress data plane that directly impacts the value we provide to our customers. By ensuring the stability and performance of our global service mesh and load balancing solutions, you drive the foundational reliability that the entire New Relic organization depends on to deliver real-time insights.

You will leverage advanced automation and infrastructure-as-code to accelerate development speed, allowing our engineering teams to ship safe, incremental changes across a massive fleet with confidence. Your work in evolving our DNS and CDN infrastructure is not just about maintenance; it is about creating a seamless, high-performance environment that enables innovation at scale.

Through deep collaboration with Product, Design, and partner platform teams, you will champion initiatives that break down silos and foster a culture of cross-team excellence. Your efforts will empower software teams across the stack to solve complex problems and accelerate digital transformation for our customers globally.

Your Qualifications

Must-have:

• 3+ years of professional experience with Go or Python programming.
• 3+ years of hands‑on AWS cloud experience.
• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and building pipelines.
• Experience with networking fundamentals (DNS, HTTP, TCP).
• Understanding of Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform).

Nice‑to‑have:

• Experience with Envoy or comparable service mesh / L7 proxy platforms.
• Familiarity with observability tooling (New Relic, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)
• Azure Cloud Networking experience.

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

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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, and other competitive benefits designed to improve the lives of our employees.

Estimated Base Pay Range

$98,000—$123,000 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 [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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