Software Engineer II

What you'll do Build, maintain, and scale backend services and their support tools using modern engineering practices. Pioneer, test, and integrate advanced AI agents and AI-powered workflows into everyday engineering operations; from code generation and automated testing to architecture planning, code reviews, and production troubleshooting. Work closely with product and sibling teams to understand product specifications and influence the roadmap for the Service Architecture Intelligence products at New Relic. Create automation and tooling to make our systems more scalable, easier to deploy. Work in an agile environment with a DevOps approach, where teams build and maintain their own software, including participating in on-call rotations. Champion continuous workflow innovation by evaluating emerging AI agent capabilities and helping set the standard for team-wide adoption. Embrace a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and shared knowledge. This role requires Experience with distributed systems, concurrency, and scaling in production environments. Strong experience writing software in OOP languages (Java is a must) and comfort adapting to different languages and frameworks. Familiarity with asynchronous programming techniques: streams, event-based flows, task queues, and message queues. Active experience using, integrating, and mastering modern AI coding assistants and AI agents in your engineering workflow, alongside a clear mindset of continuous workflow innovation. Comfort working in a fast-paced environment focused on delivering high-quality production code at a regular cadence using Agile methodologies. A collaborative work style that includes colleagues in important decisions and leads to shared code ownership. Adaptability in a rapidly changing industry and a proactive drive to push the boundaries of modern software tools. Proficiency in English.

Bonus points if you have Proven experience evaluating, benchmarking, or developing custom agentic AI tools, prompt workflows, or developer automation scripts. Contributions to open source projects. Deep understanding of the value that build and test automation brings to development team efficiency and reliability, with a passion for applying these techniques. Experience setting up and managing observability tools. Experience in technical mentorship and supporting colleagues' skill development. Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position. Fostering a diverse, welcoming and inclusive environment is important to us. We work hard to make everyone feel comfortable bringing their best, most authentic selves to work every day. We celebrate our talented Relics’ different backgrounds and abilities, and recognize the different paths they took to reach us – including nontraditional ones. Their experiences and perspectives inspire us to make our products and company the best they can be. We’re looking for people who feel connected to our mission and values, not just candidates who check off all the boxes. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application or recruiting process, please reach out to [email protected] . We believe in empowering all Relics to achieve professional and business success through a flexible workforce model. This model allows us to work in a variety of workplaces that best support our success, including fully office-based, fully remote, or hybrid. Our hiring process In compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work and to complete employment eligibility verification. Note: Our stewardship of the data of thousands of customers means that a criminal background check is required to join New Relic. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records based on individual circumstances and in accordance with applicable law including, but not limited to, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance . Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. New Relic does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes, and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with New Relic. New Relic develops and distributes encryption software and technology that complies with U.S. export controls and licensing

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