Software Engineer-Infrastructure

New Relic•St. Louis, MO

1d•$119,000 - $142,000

About The Position

As a member of New Relic’s Infrastructure team, the Software Engineer will work on global service mesh and load balancing solutions provided both on-premises and through multi-cloud infrastructure. The role focuses on designing and operating a scalable, resilient ingress data plane and ensuring 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 make safe, incremental changes across a large fleet. The role also involves evolving DNS and CDN infrastructure and collaborating with Product, Design, and partner platform teams to support cross-team initiatives and help software teams solve complex problems.

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 L7 proxy platforms.
Familiarity with observability tooling such as New Relic, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry.
Azure Cloud Networking experience.

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 DNS and CDN infrastructure to support a high-performance environment.
Collaborate with Product, Design, and partner platform teams on cross-team initiatives.