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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 identify, understand, and tackle issues, analyze performance, and maximize their software and infrastructure.



The Developer Platform organization is looking for a Senior Software Engineering Manager to join our group in India. This organization develops and maintains the end-to-end internal CI/CD tooling platform, multi-cloud infrastructure provisioning and fleet management, cloud secrets and identity management controls, infrastructure compliance and audit reporting, and all processes and controls that enable New Relic’s fleet of engineers to effectively release our products to customers. Developer Platform teams work across all engineering and cloud platform teams to implement critical multi-cloud infrastructure projects to support our business.


Our Engineering Managers are a select group of technology leaders and mentors who shape the solutions we bring to the market and foster an inclusive environment that brings out the best in people. If you have a strong technical background but you are also a person with great mentoring skills and that knows how to collaborate with multiple teams to ship great software, we would like to hear from you.

What you'll do
  • Work with a team of engineers to design, build, implement and manage secure, scalable and reliable cloud based infrastructure and tooling to support the New Relic Product Platform portfolio.
  • Driving and contributing to the software architecture, and design of our existing\current large-scale distributed systems and new systems we are investing in.
  • Driving and contributing to our culture of operational and business efficiency, secure code, CI\CD pipeline, unit test, regression testing, uptime, using smart telemetry data to make decisions, investment in technical and infrastructure debt, blameless root cause with a learner and growth mindset.
  • Collaborating with team members and across organizations to come up with new ways to solve old and new problems.
  • Attending Livesite meetings and bringing postmortem learning back to the team and organization.
  • Continue to learn from some of the brightest minds in the business, they are also looking to learn from you. Coaching and mentoring people. 
  • Drive the recruitment, training, and development of top-tier talent in the region.
  • Regularly collaborates with PMs, technical leaders, and other stakeholders to clarify project requirements and execute cross team initiatives.
  • Work in an agile environment with a DevOps approach—teams build and maintain their own software, including participating in second-layer support rotations.

This role requires

  • 10+ years of professional work experience in software development and/or operations.
  • BS/MS in Computer Science, or education/experience in a relevant field.
  • Hands-on experience coding in programming languages such as Golang, Java, Python, or Bash.
  • Hands-on experience driving the software architecture, design, large-scale multi-tiered, distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using service-oriented architecture, object-oriented design, and with RESTful API endpoints.
  • 6+ years of people management experience.
  • 6+ years experience with (CI/CD) tools such as Jenkins, Ansible, Travis CI, Circle CI 
  • Solid background in application and system programming, and Linux system administration.
  • Involvement in building Infrastructure as Code (IAC)
  • Willingness and the ability to pick up and learn new coding languages
  • Deep understanding of security, reliability, performance and cost-effectiveness of distributed systems on public cloud providers like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google GCP.
Bonus points if you have

  •  API design and development exposure with Go programming language
  • Experience in cloud technologies like AWS, Azure or GCP
  • Experience with containerization tools- Kubernetes, Istio, Cluster API, Crossplane, etc.
  • Solid understanding of the Linux operating system and concepts such as virtual machines and containers
  • Active participation in open-source development.
Is a Remote Job?
Hybrid (Remote with required office time)

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