The Streaming Platform team owns one of the largest data-in-motion platforms in the world, providing real-time data analytics. Our clusters process 9.5 billion events per minute, serving New Relic’s customer experience by making it easy for development teams to prioritize reliability. We focus on services built to stream customer data, primarily using Kafka, but we are expanding to other solutions in the future.
You will collaborate with this globally distributed team to develop expertise and best practices for New Relic development teams to operate highly reliable streaming services.
What you'll do
Own, operate, and build our fully automated Kafka platform infrastructure, running on Kubernetes with over 1,800 brokers distributed across hundreds of clusters.
Participate in an on-call rotation and bake stability into everything, continually seeking automation opportunities for built-in reliability.
Design systems using infrastructure-as-code practices.
Use available innovation time to bring your creative ideas to life.
Own and improve your team processes.
This role requires
3+ years proven experience managing services that use Kafka or other streaming platforms. Large scale is a plus.
Experience writing software in Java, Go, or similar languages.
Experience with configuration management like Terraform or Ansible.
Experience operating software in production Kubernetes environments at scale.
Background working with AWS products including Managed Streaming Kafka and Elastic Kubernetes Service. Azure and GCP are also relevant
Bonus points if you have
Experience with SRE and/or Operations principles.
Experience with other large data infrastructures like databases, data lakes, etc.
Background working with AWS products including Managed Streaming Kafka and Elastic Kubernetes Service. Azure and GCP are also relevant.
Experience using New Relic or similar solutions for service and infrastructure observability.
You are excited, not intimidated, by high-throughput data systems.
Fostering a diverse, welcoming and inclusive environment is important to us. We work hard to make everyone feel comfortable bringing their best, most authentic selves to work every day. We celebrate our talented Relics’ different backgrounds and abilities, and recognize the different paths they took to reach us – including nontraditional ones. Their experiences and perspectives inspire us to make our products and company the best they can be. We’re looking for people who feel connected to our mission and values, not just candidates who check off all the boxes.
If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application or recruiting process, please reach out to resume@newrelic.com.
We believe in empowering all Relics to achieve professional and business success through a flexible workforce model. This model allows us to work in a variety of workplaces that best support our success, including fully office-based, fully remote, or hybrid.
Our hiring process
In compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work and to complete employment eligibility verification. Note: Our stewardship of the data of thousands of customers’ means that a criminal background check is required to join New Relic.
We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records based on individual circumstances and in accordance with applicable law including, but not limited to, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
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Candidates are evaluated based on qualifications, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, age, disability, neurodiversity, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other legally protected characteristics.
