Software Engineer - Query Language
About the role
The Data, Identity, & API Platform group at New Relic builds the foundation for all of our products: data ingest, storage, and query. As an engineer working on NRDB, you’ll be contributing directly to the proprietary telemetry database technology at the core of our business.
Responsibilities
- Own the New Relic query language stack including grammar parsing, compilation, and processing.
- Proactively participate in cross-functional committees to move the query language forward, ranging from collaborations with AI, Visualizations, and Data Processing teams.
- Build and maintain scalable distributed Java services and Petabyte-scale Infrastructure.
- Investigate and resolve critical performance, availability, and resiliency issues and risks in a multi-region, multi-cloud, multi-tenant distributed database.
- Working in an agile environment with a DevOps approach — the team builds and maintains their own software, including taking turns with being on-call.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in collaborative software development.
- Firm grasp of Computer Science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and modern software design and development methodologies.
- Self-starter with a strong sense of ownership over your code and commitments.
- Ability to go deep on the command-line and fix things when they’re broken.
- Experience working in Java, or equivalent experience in an alternate OOP language (C++, C#, etc).
Bonus points
- Experience developing and operating within a 24x7 SaaS business.
- Experience or interest in database implementation, distributed systems, and/or query language grammar, compilation, and execution.
- Experience with observability tools and platforms (such as ours).
- Experience working in the public cloud (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP).
- Experience with container technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker.
- Experience working asynchronously in distributed teams. We are part of a group that is distributed across North America, Europe, and Asia.
Qualifications
This role requires:
- 3+ years of experience in collaborative software development.
- Firm grasp of Computer Science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and modern software design and development methodologies.
- Self-starter with a strong sense of ownership over your code and commitments.
- Ability to go deep on the command-line and fix things when they’re broken.
- Experience working in Java, or equivalent experience in an alternate OOP language (C++, C#, etc).
Skills
Additional skills that would be beneficial include:
- Experience developing and operating within a 24x7 SaaS business.
- Experience or interest in database implementation, distributed systems, and/or query language grammar, compilation, and execution.
- Experience with observability tools and platforms (such as ours).
- Experience working in the public cloud (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP).
- Experience with container technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker.
- Experience working asynchronously in distributed teams. We are part of a group that is distributed across North America, Europe, and Asia.
Benefits
New Relic provides a variety of benefits for this role, including healthcare, dental, vision, parental leave and planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, flex time-off, 11 paid holidays, volunteer time-off, and other competitive benefits designed to improve the lives of our employees.
Pay
Estimated Base Pay Range: $126,000 - $158,000 USD
Schedule
We are part of a group that is distributed across North America, Europe, and Asia.