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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 28 days New Relic's roles stay open a median of 36 days
- Reposted
- Yes taken down and listed again at least once
- Salary listed
- No 0% of New Relic's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at New Relic
- high 19 stale, 5 reposted of 54 open
- Hiring momentum
- 105 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from New Relic's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for New Relic.
About this role
As a Lead Software Engineer at New Relic, you will design, build, and maintain back-end services while working within a multidisciplinary team to enhance observability tools for customers. You will be involved in architectural definitions, create automation for scalability, and research new tools to propose innovative features. This role emphasizes collaboration and shared code ownership in an agile environment with a DevOps approach.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of New Relic as an employer.
What you need
- 9+ years of hands-on experience with distributed systems, concurrency, and production-scale systems
- Strong proficiency in GoLang (primary language — non-negotiable)
- Frontend experience with React - Basic level skill
- Cloud platform knowledge — AWS, Azure, or GCP (at least one, deeply)
- Proven track record of delivering production code in an Agile environment
- Collaborative engineer who drives shared code ownership and involves teammates in key decisions
Nice to have
- Experience with Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)
- Familiarity with Temporal for workflow orchestration
- GitHub Admin experience (managing orgs, teams, access controls)
- Experience building CLI tools in GoLang
- Knowledge of DSLs (Domain Specific Languages)
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- Focus on a primary language (GoLang) may limit exposure to other technologies
- The role involves being on-call, which may affect work-life balance
- Emphasis on collaboration and shared code ownership may require strong interpersonal skills
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Listed by New Relic on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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