Principal Software Engineer 1

• Define Architectural Vision:

  Define and drive the technical vision and long-term strategy for New Relics core streaming data pipelines, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, and cost-effective.

• Technical Leadership & Mentorship:

  Serve as a technical leader and mentor for multiple engineering teams working on the streaming platform. You will guide design, promote best practices in stream processing, and elevate the technical bar for the entire organization.

• Hands-On Prototyping & Development:

  Engage in hands-on development for critical path projects, building prototypes to de-risk new technologies, and optimizing existing systems for performance or cost.

• Solve Hard Problems:

  Tackle our most complex technical challenges related to data consistency, fault tolerance, and performance at extreme scale.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration:

  Partner with product managers, engineering leaders, and other principal engineers to align the platform roadmap with business objectives and the needs of product engineering teams.

• Evangelize and Educate:

  As a distributed organization, clear documentation and communication are paramount. You will create architectural documents, tech talks, and best-practice guides to share knowledge across the company.

What Your Playground Will Look Like

• One of the largest

  Apache Kafka

  deployments in the world, serving as the central nervous system for all New Relic data.
• A sophisticated stream processing environment utilizing

  Apache Flink

  and other frameworks to perform real-time data enrichment, aggregation, and analysis.
• A multi-cloud architecture (primarily AWS) leveraging services like Kubernetes (EKS), S3, and other cloud-native technologies.
• A polyglot environment with hundreds of services written predominantly in

  Java

  and

  Go

  .