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Senior Software Engineer – Alerts
Location
Oregon
Posted
19 hours ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Software Engineer – Alerts
New Relic
• Work collaboratively on a team using agile practices to ship software incrementally with frequent customer feedback • Design, develop, and deploy backend services in Java/Kotlin that process high-volume telemetry and alerting workloads, with reliability and customer impact top of mind • Collaborate with product managers and engineers who specialize in high-throughput data streaming systems, computing infrastructure, design, UIs, and customer-facing APIs • Implement exciting new Alerting features that affect our entire pipeline, and also help reduce tech debt and retire old architecture • Advocate for architecture improvements, provide future direction, and clearly articulate reasons why while assessing tradeoffs • Develop and deploy your code to customers multiple times per day • Be part of a small team of engineers collectively accountable for the reliability and security of the team's software • Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code; participate in peer code reviews and contribute to internal technical documentation • Submit PRs to other teams' codebases with low friction by providing the context the team needs to understand and approve the changes
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of professional backend software engineering experience, preferably in a SaaS or product-based environment
- Strong proficiency in Java (Kotlin actually, but willingness is fine). You should have a solid grasp of OOP principles, RESTful APIs, and multi-threaded programming
- Experience building multi-threaded Java services and shipping reliable high-throughput services to customers in a production environment
- Experience with relational databases: complex SQL, optimization, pagination, partitioning, and scaling
- Experience working with distributed systems and an understanding of how to write code and queries that perform at scale
- Experience delivering APIs consumed by internal and/or external customers
- Demonstrated empathy for the end user — you understand that backend data logistics, persistence, and retrieval at scale directly affect what customers experience, and you make engineering decisions with that impact in mind
- Experience working in an agile environment characterized by rapid change
- Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to seek consensus, lead by example, and exhibit persistence and tenacity
Benefits
- Maintain a work-life balance that enables you to thrive by leveraging flex time-off
- Ten weeks of paid parental leave
- DataNerds4Good volunteer time off program
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