Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer

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!

Your Opportunity

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 quickly identify, understand and solve issues, analyze performance and get the most of their software and infrastructure.

If you love scale and want to contribute to one of the largest and fastest growing big data platforms in the world we’d love to hear from you: New Relic is looking for a passionate software engineer to join one of our core data teams in Hyderabad and work on the high-performance, big data components that power New Relic's world-class suite of software analytics products.

You will be at the heart of New Relic’s engineering process and will be building, extending, and supporting a core set of services which all of New Relic’s agents connect to every hour of every day processing millions of messages per second, handling petabytes of data as part of a distributed team that values both collaboration and individual focus to solve challenging engineering problems.

What You’ll Do

• Architect & Execute: Lead the design of end-to-end features, from high-performance React-based interfaces to scalable Java/Python microservices.
• AI Innovation: Drive the integration of LLMs and AI agents into the New Relic ecosystem, including building and maintaining MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers to bridge our data with AI models.
• Scale Heavily: Build and maintain highly available, multi-threaded backend services that handle massive data throughput and concurrency.
• Technical Leadership: Act as a force multiplier. You’ll lead system architecture discussions, conduct deep-dive code reviews, and set the standard for engineering excellence.
• Collaborate: Partner closely with Product and Design to translate complex data visualizations into intuitive, performant user experiences.
• Mentor: Foster a culture of growth by guiding junior and senior engineers through complex technical hurdles.

Must-haves

• Experience: 8+ years of professional software development experience, with a proven track record in a Lead or Staff capacity.
• Frontend Mastery: Deep expertise in React (preferred) or Angular, with a focus on state management, performance optimization, and data visualization.
• Backend Depth: Expert-level knowledge of Java or Python. You should be comfortable with multi-threading, concurrency patterns, and asynchronous programming.
• Distributed Systems: Extensive experience designing and scaling distributed architectures that operate under high load.
• AI/ML Familiarity: Experience working with LLM APIs, prompt engineering, or building MCP servers to enable AI-driven workflows.
• Leadership: Experience leading cross-functional projects and mentoring mid-to-senior level engineers.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Front End technologies (HTML, Javascript, CSS, Angular, React)
• Experience with Go or other high-concurrency languages.
• Knowledge of Big Data technologies (Kafka, ClickHouse, or Spark).
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Contributions to open-source projects or the AI/MCP community.

Fostering a diverse, welcoming and inclusive environment is important to us. We work hard to make everyone feel comfortable bringing their best, most authentic selves to work every day. We celebrate our talented Relics’ different backgrounds and abilities, and recognize the different paths they took to reach us – including nontraditional ones. Their experiences and perspectives inspire us to make our products and company the best they can be. We’re looking for people who feel connected to our mission and values, not just candidates who check off all the boxes. 

If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application or recruiting process, please reach out to resume@newrelic.com.

We believe in empowering all Relics to achieve professional and business success through a flexible workforce model. This model allows us to work in a variety of workplaces that best support our success, including fully office-based, fully remote, or hybrid.

Our hiring process

In compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work and to complete employment eligibility verification. Note: Our stewardship of the data of thousands of customers means that a criminal background check is required to join New Relic.

We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records based on individual circumstances and in accordance with applicable law including, but not limited to, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. New Relic does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes, and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with New Relic.

New Relic develops and distributes encryption software and technology that complies with U.S. export controls and licensing requirements. Certain New Relic roles require candidates to pass an export compliance assessment as a condition of employment in any global location. If relevant, we will provide more information later in the application process.

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Experience Level

Senior Level