Lead Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Architect & Execute: Lead the design of end-to-end features, from high-performance React-based interfaces to scalable Java/Python microservices.
• AI Innovation: Drive the integration of LLMs and AI agents into the New Relic ecosystem, including building and maintaining MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers to bridge our data with AI models.
• Scale Heavily: Build and maintain highly available, multi-threaded backend services that handle massive data throughput and concurrency.
• Technical Leadership: Act as a force multiplier. You'll lead system architecture discussions, conduct deep-dive code reviews, and set the standard for engineering excellence.
• Collaborate: Partner closely with Product and Design to translate complex data visualizations into intuitive, performant user experiences.
• Mentor: Foster a culture of growth by guiding junior and senior engineers through complex technical hurdles.

Requirements

• Experience: 8+ years of professional software development experience, with a proven track record in a Lead or Staff capacity.
• Frontend Mastery: Deep expertise in React (preferred) or Angular, with a focus on state management, performance optimization, and data visualization.
• Backend Depth: Expert-level knowledge of Java or Python. You should be comfortable with multi-threading, concurrency patterns, and asynchronous programming.
• Distributed Systems: Extensive experience designing and scaling distributed architectures that operate under high load.
• AI/ML Familiarity: Experience working with LLM APIs, prompt engineering, or building MCP servers to enable AI-driven workflows.
• Leadership: Experience leading cross-functional projects and mentoring mid-to-senior level engineers.
• Experience with Front End technologies (HTML, Javascript, CSS, Angular, React)
• Experience with Go or other high-concurrency languages.
• Knowledge of Big Data technologies (Kafka, ClickHouse, or Spark).
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Contributions to open-source projects or the AI/MCP community.
• 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
• 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 N

Benefits

Additional Information

We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic, we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission. If you're ready to help the world's best companies optimize their digital applications, we invite you to explore a career with us! 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 quickly identify, understand and solve issues, analyze performance and get the most of their software and infrastructure. If you love scale and want to contribute to one of the largest and fastest growing big data platforms in the world we'd love to hear from you: New Relic is looking for a passionate software engineer to join one of our core data teams in Hyderabad and work on the high-performance, big data components that power New Relic's world-class suite of software analytics products. You will be at the heart of New Relic's engineering process and will be building, extending, and supporting a core set of services which all of New Relic's agents connect to every hour of every day processing millions of messages per second, handling petabytes of data as part of a distributed team that values both collaboration and individual focus to solve challenging engineering problems.

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