Lead Software Engineer-Kubernetes

New Relic Inc.•Portland, OR

34d

About The Position

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 Kubernetes infrastructure organization is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our Cloud Platform Engineering group. This organization develops and maintains the backend infrastructure for deploying and maintaining hundreds of Kubernetes clusters that host the applications of New Relic on the multi-cloud platform of Amazon AWS, and Microsoft Azure. The infrastructure components used are open source and team members learn and contribute to them (example: Cluster API). We encourage async communication and independence, but we also build strong human relationships between team members during our ceremonies or in-person gatherings when possible.

Requirements

10+ years of professional work experience in software development and/or operations
BS/MS in Computer Science, or education/experience in a relevant field.
Hands-on experience coding in programming languages such as Golang, Java, Python, or Bash.
6+ years experience with containerization tools- Kubernetes, Istio, Cluster API, Crossplane, etc.
Solid background in application and system programming, and Linux system administration.
Involvement in building Infrastructure as Code (IAC)
Willingness and the ability to pick up and learn new coding languages
Deep understanding of security, reliability, performance and cost-effectiveness of distributed systems on public cloud providers like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google GCP.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools such as Jenkins, Ansible, Travis CI, Circle CI,
API design and development exposure with Go programming language
Experience in cloud technologies like AWS, Azure or GCP
Solid understanding of the Linux operating system and concepts such as virtual machines and containers
Active participation in open source development.

Responsibilities

Build, maintain, and scale Go clients/projects and their support tools.
Contribute to New Relic infrastructure to develop and manage it.
Contribute to Open Source and get the chance to grow your reputation and skills.
Collaborate with team members to discuss and implement service improvements, and 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.