Principal Software Engineer - Database Platform (open to remote)

Company: New Relic, Inc.
Location: Rowlett
Posted on: November 22, 2021

Job Description:

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position. Your Opportunity Do you love the cloud and enjoy working with databases and containerized services? We are looking for an experienced infrastructure engineer and technical leader to join our infrastructure platform group. You will help design and implement our managed infrastructure layer and tooling that our developers use daily to build, deploy, and troubleshoot services accepting terabytes of traffic each day. What your playground will look like: A hybrid data center/cloud environment accepting over 70 billion HTTP requests a day from our customers. MySQL, Postgres, Aurora, Kubernetes, Go and that's just the beginning of the technologies in our stack. What You'll Do Engage, embed, and go deep with teams on a project-by-project basis to help drive high-value efforts to completion Coach and mentor the teams you collaborate with and develop balanced, maintainable solutions Encourage and role-model a strong written culture - a must for our continent-spanning engineering teams even before the recent emphasis on remote collaboration Rapidly mastering technologies and architecture of the systems with high stakes objectives where you'll need creative approaches to realize them. Steer teams toward technical decisions that fit well with our long-term vision. Communicate, communicate, communicate: Staff engineers form part of the connective tissue between teams and organizations for all technical matters. Your Qualifications If you are ready for this role, you have spent years building or supporting large distributed systems and databases in the cloud. You keep up on tech trends and have open conversations with members of the team. Must-have: 8 years of technical leadership helping engineering teams thrive Experience working with one of the major cloud providers Solid understanding of databases (RDS/Aurora, MySQL, PostgreSQL) Experience designing, developing, re-engineering, and migrating databases that fully leverage the cloud Ability to collaborate and impact decisions at the interpersonal level Strong written and verbal communication skills Nice-to-have: Experience with configuration management tooling (Ansible, Terraform, or Puppet) Experience with one of these languages: Go, Node, Python, or Ruby Experience with Kubernetes Multi-cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP) Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position. We're looking for bold and passionate people to be a part of our mission to create more perfect software. 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. The Flex First model allows us to work in a variety of workplaces that best support our success, including fully office-based, fully remote, or a combination of both. Read more about Flex First and New Relic's vaccine policy as part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and healthy workplace in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. About Us New Relic (NYSE: NEWR) is a cloud-based observability platform that gives developers, engineers, operations, and management a clear view of what's happening in today's complex software environments. So they can find and fix problems faster, and deliver delightful experiences for their customers. That's why the world's best engineering teams rely on New Relic to visualize, analyze, and troubleshoot their software. It's the simplest, most powerful cloud-based observability platform, built to create more perfect software. All from one place. Founded in 2008, we're a global company passionate about building a culture where all employees feel a deep sense of belonging, where every 'Relic' can bring their whole self to work and feel supported and empowered to thrive. We're consistently recognized as a distinguished employer and are committed to building world-class products and an award-winning culture. For more information, visit newrelic.com. Our Hiring Process New Relic takes seriously our stewardship of the data of our thousands of customers worldwide. In compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work and to complete employment eligibility verification. 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. https://sfgov.org/olse/sites/default/files/FCO%20poster2020.pdf 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 a diverse applicant pool 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? 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