Software Engineer – Query Language

New Relic

Software Engineer developing the query language stack for New Relic's telemetry database. Collaborating on scalability and performance for distributed data systems.

Posted 5/27/2026full-timeRemote • Oregon • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $126,000 - $158,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudJava

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the New Relic query language stack including grammar parsing, compilation, and processing.
Proactively participate in cross-functional committees to move the query language forward, ranging from collaborations with AI, Visualizations, and Data Processing teams.
Build and maintain scalable distributed Java services and Petabyte-scale Infrastructure.
Investigate and resolve critical performance, availability, and resiliency issues and risks in a multi-region, multi-cloud, multi-tenant distributed database.
Working in an agile environment with a DevOps approach — the team builds and maintains their own software, including taking turns with being on-call.

Requirements

What you’ll need

3+ years of experience in collaborative software development.
Firm grasp of Computer Science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and modern software design and development methodologies.
Self-starter with a strong sense of ownership over your code and commitments.
Ability to go deep on the command-line and fix things when they’re broken.
Experience working in Java, or equivalent experience in an alternate OOP language (C++, C#, etc).

Benefits

Comp & perks

healthcare
dental
vision
parental leave and planning
mental health benefits
a 401(k) plan and match
flex time-off
11 paid holidays
volunteer time-off
other competitive benefits designed to improve the lives of our employees

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Hard Skills & Tools

Javadata structuresalgorithmssoftware designsoftware development methodologiesNew Relic query languagegrammar parsingcompilationdistributed systemsmulti-cloud

Soft Skills

collaborative software developmentself-starterownershipproblem-solvingcommunication