Lead Software Engineer

Company: New Relic
Location: Houston
Posted on: April 15, 2024

Job Description:

Lead Software Engineer-Kafka Lead Software Engineer-Kafka Lead Software Engineer Your opportunity At New Relic, we love making software that improves the lives of people who make software. Our products help customers answer their most substantial questions by allowing them to visualize, explore, and understand their ops, applications, and customer data. We are looking for an expert back-end engineer to join our Streaming Platform Team. As a Lead Software Engineer, you will play a key role in architecting and building high-throughput services by applying your expertise in Kafka, Java, and distributed systems. What you'll do

• You will design and build our multi-cloud, multi-region message routing service.
• Drive operational excellence within Kafka infrastructure, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response, to maintain system stability and performance.
• Provide the connective tissue between teams and organizations for all technical matters
• Provide mentoring, coaching, and training to guide teams toward technical decisions that fit well with the long-term vision. This role requires
  • Experience in technical leadership and guiding engineering teams
  • Proven experience as a Kafka Backend Developer or similar role for a minimum of 3 years.
  • Expertise in Kafka, including designing, optimizing, and maintaining Kafka-based backend systems for high efficiency.
  • Proven expertise in Java programming in building high-performance backend systems.
  • Solid understanding of software design patterns and object-oriented programming (OOP) principles.
  • Efficient prototyping skills to assess the feasibility, impact, and risks of proposed solutions.
  • Ability to collaborate and impact decisions at the organizational level
  • Ability to collaborate with product managers, architects, and other collaborators to define technical requirements and translate them into software solutions. Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position. Bonus points if you have
    • Experience with other distributed messaging systems or stream processing frameworks (e.g., Apache Pulsar, Apache Flink).
    • Knowledge of data serialization formats commonly used with Kafka (e.g., Avro, Protobuf).
    • Familiarity with event-driven architectures and microservices.
    • Experience with monitoring, alerting, and performance tuning of Kafka clusters.
    • Previous involvement in open-source Kafka-related projects or contributions.
    • Experience with cloud-based Kafka offerings (e.g., AWS MSK, Confluent Cloud, Azure Event Hubs). We're looking for bold and passionate people to be a part of our mission to help every engineer do their best work, every day, using data, not opinions, at every stage of the software lifecycle. We'd love to have you apply, even if you don't feel you meet every single requirement. What's most important to us is finding authentic and accountable people who feel connected to our mission and values, not just candidates who check off all the boxes.
      We believe in empowering all Relics to achieve professional and business success through a workforce model called Flex First. Flex First allows us to work in a variety of workplaces that best support our success, including fully office-based, fully remote, or hybrid.
      Read more about Flex First.
      Our hiring process
      
      Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position. 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, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
      
      Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. New Relic does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes, and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with New Relic.
      
      New Relic is an equal opportunity employer. We eagerly seek applicants of diverse background and hire without regard to race, color, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical abilities (or disability), age, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
      
      Interested in the details of our privacy policy? Read more here. Estimated Base Pay Range: $ 167,000 - $ 209,000
      The pay range above represents a reasonable estimate of the salary for the listed position. This role is eligible for a corporate bonus plan and may be eligible for a competitive equity package. 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, 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.
      Wage - midpoint 209,000 Wage - minimum 167,000 #LI-MM4 #LI-Remote This field has no functionality and it was added so that we could display the separator above

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