Kubernetes Platform Engineer - Container Fabric

New Relic, Inc.; Salt Lake City (UT); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 158,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Dental

Vision

401(k) plan & match

Flexible time-off

11 paid holidays

Volunteer time-off

Job summary

New Relic, Inc. in Salt Lake City is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own and evolve our massive Kubernetes infrastructure within the Container Fabric team. You will drive platform orchestration, automation, and Day 1/Day 2 operations to keep production systems resilient and scalable.

You will apply Go for systems programming, build operators, and collaborate with global engineering teams, all within a flexible, hybrid work model that supports a range of work arrangements.

Qualifications

• Experience in DevOps, Site Reliability, or Infrastructure Engineering managing production environments.
• Deep working knowledge of Kubernetes primitives (Deployments, StatefulSets, Services) and building Kubernetes Operators.
• Strong Go skills for systems programming and automation.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and enhance a Kubernetes infrastructure platform ensuring high availability and reliability.
• Evolve internal tooling to reduce manual overhead and speed platform delivery.
• Manage Day 1 and Day 2 operations for Kubernetes clusters with modern scaling frameworks.
• Lead incident responses with a calm, production-focused approach.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go

DevOps

SRE

Tools

Helm

ArgoCD

Flux

Karpenter

Job description

New Relic, Inc. in Salt Lake City is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own and evolve our massive Kubernetes infrastructure within the Container Fabric team. You will drive platform orchestration, automation, and Day 1/Day 2 operations to keep production systems resilient and scalable.

You will apply Go for systems programming, build operators, and collaborate with global engineering teams, all within a flexible, hybrid work model that supports a range of work arrangements.