Senior Software Engineer- Streaming

• Design and develop scalable software architectures, writing high-quality code that adheres to security, reliability, and performance standards.
• Provide constructive feedback during code reviews, improve team processes, and deliver quality software regularly and incrementally. Lead efforts to identify and mitigate technical risks, ensuring compliance with service level agreements (SLAs).
• Collaborate with product managers and technical leaders to fully understand project requirements, ensuring all team members are aligned and informed. Facilitate data-driven debates to harmonize differing views before finalizing designs.
• Stay at the forefront of technology trends, especially in cloud technology and software development practices. Actively lead and contribute to technical communities both within and outside the organization, driving technological and cultural growth.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, enhancing the team's overall skills and building New Relic's engineering culture. Engage in leadership and logistical activities to sustain technical communities and promote continuous learning and improvement.

• 5+ years of hands-on hands-on experience with distributed systems, focusing on concurrency and scalability in a production environment.
• Demonstrated experience in designing, developing, and maintaining large-scale software systems with at least 5 years demonstrable experience in Java.
• Proficiency with cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform; familiarity with serverless architectures, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Understanding the value that build and test automation brings to a development team's efficiency and reliability and are passionate about applying these techniques to your projects.
• Proven ability to mentor and lead a team of software engineers towards achieving technical excellence and delivering high-quality code.
• Excellent collaboration skills, capable of working effectively within cross-functional teams, presenting ideas, and clearly communicating technical concepts.
• Thrive in a remote team setting, demonstrating strong written and oral collaboration skills, essential for maintaining high levels of teamwork and productivity in a virtual environment.

• Experience with asynchronous programming techniques: streams, event-based flows, task queues, message queues.
• Contribution to open source projects.
• A strong passion for exploring new technologies and finding creative solutions to complex technical challenges, keeping up with industry trends and advancements in observability and related domains.
• Experience working with or building GraphQL schemas.
• Experience working on an Observability product, especially in the SaaS vendor space

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