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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 8 days New Relic's roles stay open a median of 36 days
- Reposted
- No
- 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 manage the ingestion processes into NRDB, the company's telemetry datastore. Your role involves setting technical direction, leading a team through complex problem-solving in distributed systems, and collaborating with product teams to translate priorities into technical plans. You will also mentor engineers, ensure operational health of systems, and stay hands-on by writing production code.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 5/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- 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
- 7–10 years of professional software engineering experience
- 2+ years leading or acting as a technical lead for a team or major initiative
- Deep fluency in Java or a comparable OOP language
- Experience running stateful distributed services in production
- Experience leading architecture and design reviews for complex systems
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD tooling, event-driven architectures, and container orchestration
Nice to have
- Infrastructure-as-code experience across multiple environments and cloud providers
- Experience querying or reasoning about time-series or telemetry data
- Experience with formal SRE practices
- Secure-by-default design experience
- Contributions to open source projects
What you get
- healthcare
- dental
- vision
- parental leave and planning
- mental health benefits
- 401(k) plan and match
Worth weighing
- No salary listed, but a pay range is provided
- Visa sponsorship is not available for this position
- The role involves managing high-throughput distributed systems which may imply high pressure and complexity
- The position requires a criminal background check due to data stewardship responsibilities
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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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