Java Instrumentation Engineer
Portland, OR
New Relic is looking for an experienced software engineer to join ourbworld-class Java Agent team. The Java Agent team ensures that New Relicbprovide the best possible experience for customers running Java, Scala, and other languages on the JVM.
At New Relic, we provide our customers with instant and deep insight into their application’s behavior and performance. With our SaaS-based application performance monitoring (APM) solution, we have our customer’s backs by transparently instrumenting their application and reporting issues—often before the customer knows that there’s a problem. We give our customers as much information as possible to help them tune their site’s performance and
reliability.
You are a senior developer who has built sophisticated web applications and Java tooling in a fast-paced agile environment. You keep an eye on industry trends and love to apply compelling new technologies. You are experienced in performance optimization and monitoring because you take pride in having a system that runs quickly and smoothly.
You are ready for the next challenge: to dive deep into the JVM and frameworks to determine how to safely and efficiently monitor thousands of production applications. The Java Agent team tracks leading applications, frameworks, and libraries and uses innovative techniques to draw out performance data for that software. The constant change and innovation of technologies on the JVM provide a continual stream of interesting challenges. We improve as a team through ongoing collaboration, sharing of best practices, and refinement of our process.
Working on an agent at New Relic means working with some of the brightest software engineers in the industry. In our polyglot environment, you would regularly share insight with engineers working in Ruby, PHP, C, Python, .NET, and Node.js. You may find yourself comparing implementation notes with an expert Python developer one day and pair programming with Ward Cunningham thebnext. By working across different technologies, work at New Relic borrows the best from many communities.
At New Relic, we value:
- Work/Life Balance
- Respect
- Professional Growth
- Experimentation
To fast track your cover letter please tell us about a time you introduced positive change to your team, and why you want to join our fun dynamic company.
A little about us
We are passionate, possibly even crazy, about application performance management (APM). Our mission is to make web applications run better, to make the internet more productive, and to make life easier for developers and devops. We are turning the APM marketplace upside down by providing SaaS products that deliver high-value functionality previously only available through enterprise software. We are well above 85,000 customers. And with your help we’ll get to 10x that number.
New Relic is a Oregon Top Workplaces 2013 award winner, a San Francisco Best Places to Work 2012 award winner a Top 100 OnDemand Company, Best of SaaS (THINKStrategies), Top 100 Coolest Cloud Computing (CRN); 10 Cloud Management Companies to Watch (NetworkWorld); the list of accolades goes on. More important, we provide challenging work, opportunities to learn, high quality teammates, a standard-setting product, and a company on the move.
This position is in our Portland, Oregon office, in a vibrant tech community and a region with a great quality of life. We offer competitive compensation, pre-IPO stock options, and big-company benefits (medical, dental, vision, life), while maintaining the energy, agility, and fun of a start-up. We can help with relocation and are open to H1-B transfers
New Relic is most decidedly an equal opportunity employer. We seek applicants of diverse background and hire without regard to race, color, gender, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law. Note: Our stewardship of the data of many thousands of customers means that a criminal background check is required to join New Relic.