Senior Software Engineer

Bangalore, IndiaSenior5+ years

We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic, we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission. If you're ready to help the world's best companies optimize their digital applications, we invite you to explore a career with us!

Your Opportunity

At New Relic, we provide our customers real-time insights so they can innovate faster. Our software delivers insightful observability tools across different technologies and distributed systems, enabling software engineering teams to quickly identify, understand and solve issues, analyze performance and get the most of their software and infrastructure.

If you love scale and want to contribute to one of the largest and fastest growing big data platforms in the world we’d love to hear from you: New Relic is looking for a passionate software engineer to join one of our core data teams in Hyderabad and work on the high-performance, big data components that power New Relic's world-class suite of software analytics products.

You will be at the heart of New Relic’s engineering process and will be building, extending, and supporting a core set of services which all of New Relic’s agents connect to every hour of every day processing millions of messages per second, handling petabytes of data as part of a distributed team that values both collaboration and individual focus to solve challenging engineering problems.

What You’ll Do

Full-Stack Delivery: Independently design, develop, and deploy scalable features using React on the frontend and Java/Python on the backend.
AI Integration: Implement AI-enhanced workflows, including the development of MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers to expose New Relic’s telemetry data to LLMs and AI agents.
System Ownership: Take responsibility for the reliability and performance of services processing massive data volumes, ensuring they are multi-threaded and highly concurrent.
Code Excellence: Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code. Participate in peer code reviews and contribute to internal technical documentation.
Collaborate: Work closely with Product Managers and Designers to turn wireframes and requirements into polished, production-ready software.
Optimization: Identify bottlenecks in the stack—from slow UI renders to inefficient backend queries—and implement high-performance solutions.

Must-haves

Experience: 5+ years of professional experience in full-stack software development, preferably in a SaaS or product-based environment.
Frontend Proficiency: Strong experience with React (preferred) or Angular, with a solid understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS, and modern web standards.
Backend Expertise: Strong proficiency in Java or Python. You should have a solid grasp of OOP principles, RESTful APIs, and multi-threaded programming.
Database & Scale: Experience working with distributed systems and relational or NoSQL databases. You understand how to write queries that perform at scale.
AI & Innovation: Experience or a strong interest in AI/ML integration, specifically working with LLM APIs and building/maintaining MCP servers.
Problem Solving: A proven ability to troubleshoot complex issues across the entire technical stack.

Nice-to-haves

Familiarity with Go or other backend languages used in high-performance environments.
Experience with observability tools (New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana) or Big Data platforms (Kafka, Spark).
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
A passion for UI/UX and building data-dense dashboards.

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.

Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. New Relic does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes, and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with New Relic.

New Relic develops and distributes encryption software and technology that complies with U.S. export controls and licensing requirements. Certain New Relic roles require candidates to pass an export compliance assessment as a condition of employment in any global location. If relevant, we will provide more information later in the application process.

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.

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