About the position
New Relic is seeking an Associate Software Engineer to join its Infrastructure team, which supports global service mesh and load balancing solutions provided on-premises and across a multi-cloud infrastructure. The role focuses on designing and operating a scalable, resilient ingress data plane and maintaining the stability and performance of infrastructure that supports New Relic’s real-time observability services.
The engineer will use automation and infrastructure-as-code to help teams ship safe, incremental changes across a large fleet, and will contribute to evolving DNS and CDN infrastructure. The role involves close collaboration with Product, Design, and partner platform teams to improve cross-team effectiveness and enable software teams to solve complex problems and accelerate digital transformation. New Relic supports a flexible workforce model that may include fully office-based, fully remote, or hybrid workplaces.
Responsibilities
- Design and operate a scalable, resilient ingress data plane.
- Support the stability and performance of global service mesh and load balancing solutions.
- Use automation and infrastructure-as-code to accelerate development and enable safe, incremental changes across a large fleet.
- Evolve New Relic’s DNS and CDN infrastructure.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and partner platform teams to promote cross-team excellence.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of professional experience with Go or Python programming.
- At least 3 years of hands-on AWS cloud experience.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling, such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins, and building pipelines.
- Experience with networking fundamentals, including DNS, HTTP, and TCP.
- Understanding of Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with Envoy or comparable service mesh or Layer 7 proxy platforms.
- Familiarity with observability tooling such as New Relic, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry.
- Azure Cloud Networking experience.
Benefits
- Healthcare
- Dental
- Vision
- Parental leave and planning
- Mental health benefits
- 401(k) plan and match
- Flexible time off
- 11 paid holidays
- Volunteer time off
- Corporate bonus plan
- Other competitive benefits