Senior Software Engineer – Alerts

New Relic

Senior Software Engineer at New Relic focusing on backend services for alerting platforms. Collaborating with product managers and engineers to optimize high-volume telemetry data.

Posted 6/24/2026full-timeRemote • Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $156,000 - $195,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsJavaKotlinSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Work collaboratively on a team using agile practices to ship software incrementally with frequent customer feedback
Design, develop, and deploy backend services in Java/Kotlin that process high-volume telemetry and alerting workloads, with reliability and customer impact top of mind
Collaborate with product managers and engineers who specialize in high-throughput data streaming systems, computing infrastructure, design, UIs, and customer-facing APIs
Implement exciting new Alerting features that affect our entire pipeline, and also help reduce tech debt and retire old architecture
Advocate for architecture improvements, provide future direction, and clearly articulate reasons why while assessing tradeoffs
Develop and deploy your code to customers multiple times per day
Be part of a small team of engineers collectively accountable for the reliability and security of the team's software
Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code; participate in peer code reviews and contribute to internal technical documentation
Maintain a work-life balance that enables you to thrive by leveraging flex time-off, ten weeks of paid parental leave, and our DataNerds4Good volunteer time off program
Submit PRs to other teams' codebases with low friction by providing the context the team needs to understand and approve the changes

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of professional backend software engineering experience, preferably in a SaaS or product-based environment
Strong proficiency in Java (Kotlin actually, but willingness is fine). You should have a solid grasp of OOP principles, RESTful APIs, and multi-threaded programming
Experience building multi-threaded Java services and shipping reliable high-throughput services to customers in a production environment
Experience with relational databases: complex SQL, optimization, pagination, partitioning, and scaling
Experience working with distributed systems and an understanding of how to write code and queries that perform at scale
Experience delivering APIs consumed by internal and/or external customers
Demonstrated empathy for the end user — you understand that backend data logistics, persistence, and retrieval at scale directly affect what customers experience, and you make engineering decisions with that impact in mind
Experience working in an agile environment characterized by rapid change
Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to seek consensus, lead by example, and exhibit persistence and tenacity.

Benefits

Comp & perks

healthcare
dental
vision
parental leave and planning
mental health benefits
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

JavaKotlinOOP principlesRESTful APIsmulti-threaded programmingSQLdistributed systemshigh-throughput servicesbackend software engineeringagile practices

Soft Skills

interpersonal skillsconsensus buildingleadershippersistencetenacityempathy for end userscollaborationcommunicationaccountabilitytechnical documentation