Senior Software Engineer - Ruby on Rails

Your Opportunity

The RPM Continuity team is responsible for the reliability of the core Ruby codebase which powers APM, New Relic’s flagship product. Our sophisticated Rails app provides some of the key data and services underlying our top revenue-generating products! We are looking for an engineer to help build, maintain, and to continue to scale our core Rails application. When we aren’t doing that, our goal is to provide a frictionless development experience to other product teams contributing to the code base.

What You'll Do

• Build a continuous integration & delivery tool to support trying out code live before deploying
• Join an on-call rotation with a mature and robust incident response process. Every page is analyzed to understand how we can avoid seeing repeats, we take quality of life seriously.
• Learn from production incidents to make critical improvements to the performance and reliability of systems. We have a blameless retro culture.
• Develop patterns and processes to improve reliability, scalability, and geographic distribution.
• Opportunity to plan and lead feature implementations and team projects.

Your Qualifications

• Experience with Ruby (or a similar dynamic language) in a production environment.
• Familiarity with alerting, monitoring and observability, among other SRE/DevOps standard methodologies.
• Written and verbal communication skills and a willingness to collaborate with the whole team on process and technical issues.

We Offer

• Professional employee resources groups and development training, including DE&I topics.
• 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave covering birth and non-birth parents, adoption and foster placement, plus up to 12 more weeks of full pay for birth parents covering the short term disability period
• Flexible Time Off - use it when you need it

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Remote work

We are excited to consider a remote engineer for this role in the Pacific Standard Time zone. If you are not in the PST zone you must be willing to work within our core office hours. Remote team members will be expected to work out of their home office and must have successfully worked as a remote engineer in their current or past position.

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Our Office

Our office is in the center of downtown Portland, situated in a thriving tech community in the Pacific Northwest. We enjoy easy commute access and a plethora of good eats and great coffee. We provide competitive compensation including equity and big-company benefits (medical, dental, etc.)—all while maintaining the energy, agility and fun of a start-up.

About Us

New Relic (NYSE: NEWR) is the industry’s largest and most comprehensive cloud-based instrumentation platform built to create more perfect software. The world’s best software and DevOps teams rely on New Relic to move faster, make better decisions and create best-in-class digital experiences. If you run software, you need to run New Relic. We’re proudly trusted by more than 50% of the Fortune 100.

Founded in 2008, we’re a global company focused on building a culture where all employees feel a deep sense of belonging, where every ‘Relic’ can bring their whole self to work and feel supported and empowered to thrive. We’re consistently recognized as a distinguished employer and are committed to building world-class products and an award winning culture. For more information, visit newrelic.com.

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. https://sfgov.org/olse/sites/d... 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 is an equal opportunity employer. We eagerly seek applicants of diverse background and hire without regard to race, color, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical abilities (or disability), age, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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