Your opportunity
Are you a hands-on technologist with a passion for driving technical strategy? Newrelic is seeking a visionary Principal Engineer to lead the evolution of our database engine. As a key player in our mission to empower data-driven decision-making, you’ll be at the forefront of shaping the future of our analytical infrastructure.
Role Overview: As the Principal Engineer, you will be instrumental in transforming our database engine to operate at exabyte scale. Our analytical database engine ingests trillions of data points per day, enabling lightning-fast queries with an impressive 60 ms response time at P50. Your technical leadership will ensure that our system seamlessly handles exabytes of data daily.

Why Newrelic? Join us in revolutionizing how organizations harness data for insights. As a Principal Engineer driving the evolution of our database engine, you’ll be part of a dynamic team shaping the future of analytics at Newrelic!

Apply now and let’s shape the data landscape together!

What you'll do
Role Overview: As the Principal Engineer, you will be instrumental in transforming our database engine to operate at exabyte scale. Our analytical database engine ingests trillions of data points per day, enabling lightning-fast queries with an impressive 60 ms response time at P50. Your technical leadership will ensure that our system seamlessly handles exabytes of data daily.

Responsibilities:
  • Technical Strategy: Develop and execute forward-thinking technical strategies for our database engine, aligning with Newrelic’s business goals.
  • Scalability and Performance: Architect and optimize the engine to handle exabyte-scale data while maintaining exceptional query performance.
  • Efficient Ingestion: Enhance data ingestion pipelines to accommodate trillions of data points daily.
  • Query Optimization: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to fine-tune query execution and response times.
  • Reliability and Resilience: Ensure mission-critical cloud services operate with high reliability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery capabilities.
  • Hands-On Leadership: Mentor and guide engineers, fostering innovation and growth.
Qualifications:
  • Technical Expertise:
  • Demonstrated experience in designing and evolving analytical database engines.
  • Proficiency in efficiently handling massive data volumes (exabytes).
  • Strong grasp of query optimization techniques and performance tuning.
  • Familiarity with distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and microservices.
Leadership Skills:
  • Proven track record in managing mission-critical cloud services.
  • Ability to inspire and lead cross-functional teams.
  • Strategic thinker with a focus on long-term impact.
  • Reliability and Resilience:
  • Experience ensuring high availability, scalability, and fault tolerance.
  • Expertise in disaster recovery planning and execution.
  • Passion for maintaining robust systems under demanding conditions.
This role requires
  • 8+ years of technical leadership helping engineering teams thrive 
  • Exposure to areas of Database Products( Database Engine Internals ) such as Query Optimization and Query Execution, Distributed database & Parallel Query Execution, Expression optimization & evaluation
  • Experience with: C, C++, Unix, Linux, Windows, Data Structures & Algorithms, Database Internals, PostgreSQL, CitusDB, MySQL. 
  • Experience working with one of the major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) 
  • Extensive experience in a SaaS environment, building and operating large scale distributed systems. 
  • Ability to collaborate and impact decisions at the interpersonal level 
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Observability domain knowledge 
  • Experience operating containerized services (Kubernetes, Mesos/Marathon) 
  • Solid understanding of databases (RDS, MySQL, PostgreSQL) 
  • Experience with configuration management tooling (Ansible, Terraform, or Puppet) 
  • BS/MS/PhD in CS (or equivalent).


Bonus points if you have
  • Experience with observability tools
Is a Remote Job?
Hybrid (Remote with required office time)

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