Software Engineer- Infrastructure at New Relic — Atlanta, GA

Your Opportunity

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.

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.

What You’ll Do

As a key member of our Infrastructure team, you will design and operate a scalable, resilient ingress data plane that directly impacts the value we provide to our customers. By ensuring the stability and performance of our global service mesh and load balancing solutions, you drive the foundational reliability that the entire New Relic organization depends on to deliver real-time insights.

You will leverage advanced automation and infrastructure-as-code to accelerate development speed, allowing our engineering teams to ship safe, incremental changes across a massive fleet with confidence. Your work in evolving our DNS and CDN infrastructure is not just about maintenance; it is about creating a seamless, high-performance environment that enables innovation at scale.

Through deep collaboration with Product, Design, and partner platform teams, you will champion initiatives that break down silos and foster a culture of cross-team excellence. Your efforts will empower software teams across the stack to solve complex problems and accelerate digital transformation for our customers globally.

Your Qualifications

Must-have:

• 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).

Nice-to-have:

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

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Estimated Base Pay Range

$114,000—$142,000 USD

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