New Relic is looking for a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead the Kubernetes infrastructure organization, which is responsible for developing and maintaining the backend infrastructure for hundreds of Kubernetes clusters hosting New Relic applications on AWS and Azure. The goal is to ensure secure, scalable, and reliable cloud-based infrastructure that provides real-time insights for customers to innovate faster.
Requirements
- 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.
- Strong experience in architectural patterns and anti-patterns for resiliency, geo-availability, and disaster recovery.
- Strong DevOps experience in developing and maintaining cloud-agnostic Kubernetes infrastructure on major public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- In-depth experience with containerization tools- Kubernetes, Istio, Cluster API, Crossplane, etc.
- Solid background in application and system programming, and Linux system administration.
- Deep understanding of security, reliability, performance and cost-effectiveness of distributed systems on public cloud providers like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google GCP.
Responsibilities
- Work with a team of engineers to design, build, implement and manage secure, scalable and reliable cloud based infrastructure to support the New Relic Product Platform portfolio.
- Driving and contributing to the software architecture, design of our current large-scale distributed systems and new systems we are investing in.
- Own, and drive vision and strategy for the Kubernetes Infrastructure platform and provide architectural guidance for security, reliability, scalability, resilience, Disaster Recovery, performance optimization, and cost efficiency.
- 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.
- Work in an agile environment with a DevOps approach—teams build and maintain their own software, including participating in second-layer support rotations.
Other
- 8+ years of people management experience.
- Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor engineers or managers in all aspects of their engineering duties and growth.
- 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.
- Comfortable working across time zones (US/EU/India time zones) in a fast-paced setting.
