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Title Senior Software Engineer - Kubernetes Agents and Services- P3
Description Your opportunity
At New Relic, we provide our customers real-time insights, so they can innovate faster. Our software delivers insightful observability tools across different technologies and distributed systems, enabling software engineering teams to identify, understand and tackle issues, analyze performance, and maximize their software and infrastructure.
The Infrastructure Instrumentation organization is looking for a Software Engineer to join our group in US. This organization develops and maintains instrumentation agents and integrations for a wide range of products, including Kafka, MySQL, etc... In this role you will work on Kubernetes integration that gives our customers full observability into the health and performance of their K8s environment, backend services that powers these dashboards and queries as well as on the user interfaces which are critical to design and implement dashboards.
We encourage async communication and independence, but we also build strong human relationships between team members during our ceremonies..
What you'll do
- Build, maintain, and scale Go/Python clients/projects and their support tools.
- Contribute to Open Source and get the chance to grow your reputation and skills.
- Collaborate with team members to discuss and implement service improvements, research new tools and services to solve sophisticated problems properly.
- Ship incrementally and often, helping the team to maintain a constant flow of feedback on its work.
- Work in an agile environment with a DevOps approach—teams build and maintain their own software, including participating in second layer support rotations.
This role requires
- You have experience and are passionate about instrumentation, agents, large scale distributed systems, Linux systems, software architectures and Go programming language.
- Strong Golang/Python experience and familiarity with scaling applications in Kubernetes environments
- Willingness to work on UI components to display queried data gathered from multiple backend services.
- You're an autonomous, cross-functional, and agile person who thrives in a fast-paced environment focused on delivering high-quality software at a regular cadence.
- You're self-motivated, learn fast, accountable and demonstrate creative problem-solving skills.
- You thrive collaborating with colleagues in important decisions and sharing code ownership.
Bonus points if you have
- Experience developing instrumentation products, helm charts.
- Experience developing on different Unix OSes and Windows.
- Upstream contributions to relevant Open Source projects (e.g. OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, DBs, http servers, etc
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 resume@newrelic.com.
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
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