Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. New Relic is a global observability company that builds an intelligent platform to help companies understand and optimize their complex digital systems. The Associate Software Engineer will develop and optimize features for NRDB, New Relic’s telemetry database, while improving scalability, performance, and service reliability in distributed systems.
Responsibilities
- Develop new features with a focus on optimizing performance and efficiency
- Collaborate with the team to implement scalable solutions and enhance application performance
- Identifying and acting on opportunities to improve the reliability of our services
Skills
- 2+ years of professional experience in distributed SaaS software development
- Proficiency in Java programming, expertise with algorithms and data structures, and building high-throughput software following best-practices
- Deeper understanding of distributed systems and their core challenges
- Experience using the command line to manage, investigate, and fix things when they're broken
- Experience with databases like MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB, Redis, MongoDB, etc
- Familiarity with the public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Familiarity with Kubernetes or Docker
- An understanding of Computer Science fundamentals is very important
- Familiarity with networks and load-balancing, and how to use them well in low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems
- Familiarity with modern observability & alerting patterns
- Familiarity with debugging/troubleshooting issues using tools such as Java Flight Recorder
- Experience working in distributed teams would also help
- An ability to work well asynchronously
Benefits
- Eligible for a corporate bonus plan
- Healthcare
- Dental
- Vision
- Parental leave and planning
- Mental health benefits
- A 401(k) plan and match
- Flex time-off
- 11 paid holidays
- Volunteer time-off
- A flexible workforce model allowing fully office-based, fully remote, or hybrid work
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