Software Engineer - Container Fabric

New Relic, Inc.; Portland (OR); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 158,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Dental

Vision

Parental leave

401(k) with match

Flexible time off

Paid holidays

Job summary

New Relic is seeking a Platform Engineer for the Container Fabric team in the United States. You will own and evolve a large Kubernetes infrastructure, building resilient, scalable systems that empower engineering teams globally.

You’ll drive platform evolution using cloud-native tools, automate workflows, and manage Day 1/Day 2 ops. This role emphasizes production reliability, incident response, and collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• In-depth Kubernetes expertise and operators development.
• Go programming for systems automation and tooling.
• Production stability management experience.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and enhance a massive Kubernetes infrastructure platform for peak availability.
• Evolve internal tooling to reduce manual overhead and streamline delivery.
• Manage Day 1 and Day 2 operations for clusters with modern scaling.
• Lead incident responses and partner with teams for operational excellence.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go

DevOps

Production stability

Tools

Helm

ArgoCD

Flux

Karpenter

Cluster API

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

Join New Relic's Container Fabric (CF) team and play a pivotal role in shaping our global internal platform. You will work at the very heart of our infrastructure, building resilient, scalable systems that empower engineering teams across the entire business. If you thrive on solving complex, large-scale challenges and enjoy the tangible impact of high-availability platform orchestration, this is your chance to elevate your technical reach.

You will be given the autonomy to drive platform evolution, work with state-of-the-art cloud-native tools, and push the boundaries of modern infrastructure.

What you'll do

• Platform Orchestration: Oversee and enhance a massive Kubernetes infrastructure platform, ensuring peak availability, performance, and reliability.
• Automation & Engineering: Evolve internal tooling to eliminate manual overhead and streamline platform delivery across global teams.
• Lifecycle Management: Manage Day 1 and Day 2 operations for Kubernetes clusters using modern scaling frameworks.
• Operational Excellence: Partner with a supportive engineering team to manage production environments and lead high-severity incident responses calmly and efficiently.

This role requires

• Infrastructure Expertise: A background in DevOps, Site Reliability, or Infrastructure Engineering managing production environments.
• Kubernetes Mastery: Deep working knowledge of K8s primitives (Deployments, StatefulSets, Services) and hands-on experience building custom Kubernetes Operators.
• Golang Proficiency: Strong skills in Go for systems programming and infrastructure automation.
• Production Focus: Proven experience managing production stability, monitoring, and resolving high-severity incidents.

Bonus points if you have

• Experience with cloud-native auto-scaling technologies such as Karpenter or Cluster API.
• Practical familiarity with Helm and GitOps tools like ArgoCD or Flux to manage continuous deployment workflows.

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

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

$126,000 — $158,000 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, theSan Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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