Associate Software Engineer- Infrastructure

📋 Job Overview

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!

🏢 About New Relic

At New Relic, we provide our customers with real-time insights, so they can innovate faster. Our software provides deep observability across the stack, enabling software teams to solve their customer’s problems, accelerate digital transformation, and make DevOps work.

🎯 The Role

You will be at the heart of the teams supporting New Relic’s infrastructure and will work on a team that provides global service mesh and load balancing solutions. We provide these services on-premises, as well as using our multi-cloud infrastructure.

We support each other to do our best work through positive communication and continuous improvement.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Design and operate a scalable, resilient ingress data plane that directly impacts the value we provide to our customers.
• Ensure the stability and performance of our global service mesh and load balancing solutions.
• Leverage advanced automation and infrastructure-as-code to accelerate development speed.
• Evolve our DNS and CDN infrastructure to create a seamless, high-performance environment.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and partner platform teams to champion initiatives that break down silos.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience with Go or Python programming.
• 3+ years of hands-on AWS cloud experience.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and building pipelines.
• Experience with networking fundamentals (DNS, HTTP, TCP).
• Understanding of Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform).

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience with Envoy or comparable service mesh / L7 proxy platforms.
• Familiarity with observability tooling (New Relic, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)
• Azure Cloud Networking experience.

🎁 Benefits

The pay range below represents a reasonable estimate of the salary for the listed position. This role is eligible for a corporate bonus plan. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related factors such as an applicant’s skills, qualifications, and experience.

New Relic provides a variety of benefits for this role, including healthcare, dental, vision, parental leave and planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, flex time-off, 11 paid holidays, volunteer time-off, and other competitive benefits designed to improve the lives of our employees.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.