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Lead Software Engineer - Java in USA

  • New Relic
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Portland, OR

Responsibilities

  • Set technical direction and make architecture and design decisions for high-throughput data-ingest systems.
  • Scope, estimate, and own complex multi-engineer projects from design through general availability.
  • Evaluate and introduce tools, patterns, technologies, and appropriate LLM-assisted development practices.
  • Write and ship production code alongside the team.
  • Develop engineers through code reviews, technical feedback, and career mentorship.
  • Communicate technical risks and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Own operational health, including CI/CD, observability, and incident response.
  • Identify and close gaps in tooling, documentation, and team coverage.

Requirements

  • 7–10 years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years leading or acting as a technical lead for a team or major initiative.
  • Deep fluency in Java or a comparable object-oriented language, with the ability to learn the team’s other languages and frameworks.
  • Experience running stateful distributed services in production under unpredictable load and leading incident remediation.
  • Experience leading architecture and design reviews for complex systems.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, Argo CD or similar CI/CD tooling, Kafka or similar event-driven architecture, and Kubernetes or similar container orchestration.
  • Experience with data modeling and query optimization against relational databases at scale.
  • Track record of mentoring engineers and improving team output through feedback.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presenting technical cases to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Preferred qualifications include infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform or CloudFormation, telemetry or time-series data experience, formal SRE practices, secure-by-default design with OWASP or secure coding tools, and open-source contributions.

Benefits

  • Healthcare, dental, vision, parental leave and planning, and mental health benefits.
  • 401(k) plan with company match, flexible time off, 11 paid holidays, volunteer time off, and other competitive benefits.
  • Flexible workforce model supporting fully office-based, fully remote, or hybrid work arrangements.
  • Eligible for a corporate bonus plan.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Salary: $186k - $233k/yr

New Relic

New Relic builds an intelligent observability platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world, providing deep insights into their complex systems. By focusing on innovative solutions, we help organizations optimize their digital applications and eliminate interruptions in their us...

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