Kubernetes Platform Engineer (Go) – Remote

New Relic, Inc.; Maryland; Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 158,000; Full time

Job summary

New Relic, Inc. is seeking a Platform Engineer for the Container Fabric team to shape our global internal platform. You will work at the heart of our infrastructure, building scalable, resilient systems that empower engineering teams across the business.

You will have autonomy to drive platform evolution, work with cloud-native tools, and push the boundaries of modern infrastructure. This role emphasizes production stability, incident response, and working across global teams.

Qualifications

• Experience in DevOps/SRE/infra engineering managing production environments.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes primitives (Deployments, StatefulSets, Services) and building operators.
• Strong programming skills in Go for systems programming and automation.
• Proven ability to monitor production environments and resolve high-severity incidents.

Responsibilities

• Platform orchestration: Oversee a massive Kubernetes infrastructure platform for high availability and reliability.
• Automation: Evolve internal tooling to reduce manual work and streamline platform delivery.
• Lifecycle management: Manage Day 1 and Day 2 operations for Kubernetes clusters.
• Operational excellence: Lead incident responses and coordinate with engineering teams.

Skills

DevOps

Kubernetes

Go

Incident response

Tools

Helm

ArgoCD

Job description

New Relic, Inc. is seeking a Platform Engineer for the Container Fabric team to shape our global internal platform. You will work at the heart of our infrastructure, building scalable, resilient systems that empower engineering teams across the business.

You will have autonomy to drive platform evolution, work with cloud-native tools, and push the boundaries of modern infrastructure. This role emphasizes production stability, incident response, and working across global teams.