Senior Software Engineer -Alerts
About the role
Your opportunity
At New Relic, we love making tools for software and ops engineers. Our software helps customers answer their most important questions by allowing them to visualize, explore, and reason about their ops, application, and customer data — and to know the moment something goes wrong.
If you love scale and want to contribute to one of the largest and fastest-growing streaming data platforms in the world, we'd love to hear from you. We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Alerts teams within the Applied Intelligence group, focused on the backend services that ingest, persist, and retrieve the signal data powering New Relic's alerting platform.
This is a backend role at the heart of a customer-facing product. You'll spend your days deep in Java/Kotlin services, distributed data systems, and high-throughput pipelines — but the work you ship directly shapes what customers see, how quickly they're notified when their systems are in trouble, and how confident they feel in the platform. We're looking for someone who treats data logistics, persistence, and retrieval at scale as a customer experience problem, not just an engineering one — someone who debates API schemas with the end user in mind and consults with frontend developers early in the design process.
What you'll do
- Work collaboratively on a team using agile practices to ship software incrementally with frequent customer feedback
- Design, develop, and deploy backend services in Java/Kotlin that process high-volume telemetry and alerting workloads, with reliability and customer impact top of mind
- Collaborate with product managers and engineers who specialize in high-throughput data streaming systems, computing infrastructure, design, UIs, and customer-facing APIs
- Implement exciting new Alerting features that affect our entire pipeline, and also help reduce tech debt and retire old architecture
- Advocate for architecture improvements, provide future direction, and clearly articulate reasons why while assessing tradeoffs
- Develop and deploy your code to customers multiple times per day
- Be part of a small team of engineers collectively accountable for the reliability and security of the team's software
- Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code; participate in peer code reviews and contribute to internal technical documentation
- Maintain a work-life balance that enables you to thrive by leveraging flex time-off, ten weeks of paid parental leave, and our DataNerds4Good volunteer time off program
- Submit PRs to other teams' codebases with low friction by providing the context the team needs to understand and approve the changes
This role requires
- 5+ years of professional backend software engineering experience, preferably in a SaaS or product-based environment
- Strong proficiency in Java (Kotlin actually, but willingness is fine). You should have a solid grasp of OOP principles, RESTful APIs, and multi-threaded programming
- Experience building multi-threaded Java services and shipping reliable high-throughput services to customers in a production environment
- Experience with relational databases: complex SQL, o