New Relic: Senior Software Engineer — Hyderabad, India

About New Relic

New Relic provides observability software. Its platform monitors application performance, infrastructure, logs, browser and mobile front-end behaviour and system security signals, giving engineering teams a single view in which to detect problems and investigate causes. The company is headquartered in San Francisco in the United States. Teams use the telemetry to keep their services dependable through software change cycles, and its employer feed lists engineering and customer-facing roles.

The position and its setting

New Relic lists Senior Software Engineer in Hyderabad, India, under reference 5459398008. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Telemetry Data Platform
• Employer listing date: 26 October 2026

Responsibilities and work described

• Design, build, and maintain cloud-native Java microservices in the NR Lens query path: SQL Gateway, Query Gateway, and data source connector plugins
• Development: and harden JDBC connector integrations — including connection lifecycle management, credential handling, query pushdown optimization, and security validation
• Improvement: query reliability and performance across a multi-tenant distributed SQL deployment serving 50+ customers
• Building: and operate services on AWS (EKS, IAM/STS, S3) with infrastructure-as-code practices
• Implementation: security controls for user-supplied connection parameters (JDBC URL validation, SSRF prevention, hostname allowlisting)
• Building: materialized view scheduling, execution, and lifecycle management features
• Design: and implement deployment automation — canary deployments, progressive rollouts, observability integration
• Collaboration: with the NRDB/Dirac team on the internal connector bridging federated queries to New Relic's native telemetry engine
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response for production systems

Essential requirements and candidate background

• 5+ years of professional Java development
• Experience building cloud-native applications on AWS
• Experience designing and operating containerized microservices on Kubernetes
• Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale
• Familiarity: infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience: AWS security patterns
• Experience: observability tooling — defining SLOs/SLIs, dashboards, alerting
• Comfort debugging production issues across multi-service architectures
• Experience: gRPC or Thrift-based service communication
• Experience: GraphQL APIs

Preferred experience and additional strengths

• Understanding: SQL query execution — parsing, planning, optimization, or execution engines
• Experience: JDBC drivers, connection pooling, and database connector development
• Experience: distributed query engines or SQL-on-anything platforms
• Experience developing plugins or connectors for distributed query engines (SPI-based architectures)
• Knowledge: RBAC/authorization systems in multi-tenant SaaS environments
• 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]

Professional registration and licensing

• New Relic develops and distributes encryption software and technology that complies with U.S. export controls and licensing requirements

Location, schedule and contract conditions

• Advertised location: Hyderabad, India

Pay and application dates

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How to apply to New Relic

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Practical preparation: Java

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Relevant skills

• Java
• SQL
• Kubernetes
• CI/CD
• AWS
• APIs
• Terraform
• AI
• compliance