Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Database Platform
Req ID: FY25|R&D|#6389
Location(s): Annapolis, Maryland, USA; Arlington, Virginia, USA; Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Austin, Texas, USA; Baltimore, Maryland, USA; Boise, Idaho, USA; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Charleston, South Carolina, USA; Chicago, Illinois, USA; Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; Dallas, Texas, USA; Des Moines, Iowa, USA; Detroit, Michigan, USA; Houston, Texas, USA; Indianapolis, Indiana, USA; Jackson, Wyoming, USA; Kansas City, Missouri, USA; Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; Los Angeles, California, USA; Madison, Wisconsin, USA; Memphis, Tennessee, USA; Miami, Florida, USA; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; Orlando, Florida, USA; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Phoenix, Arizona, USA; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; Portland, Oregon, USA; Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; San Francisco, California, USA; San Jose, California, USA; Seattle, Washington, USA; St. Louis, Missouri, USA; Washington, District of Columbia, USA; Wichita, Kansas, USA.
Work arrangement(s): Fully Remote (works exclusively from home)
Your opportunity
We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineering Manager with a passion for technology, people, projects, and data. Passionate leaders with depth and breadth of technology experience who can encourage the team and guide it towards success.
At New Relic, we love making software that improves the lives of people who make software. Our products help customers answer their most meaningful questions by allowing them to visualize, explore, and understand their ops, applications, and customer data.
Our Engineering Managers are a select group of technology leaders and mentors who shape the solutions we bring to the market and foster an inclusive environment that brings out the best in people.
If you have a strong technical background and great mentoring skills, and know how to collaborate with multiple teams to ship great software, we would like to hear from you.
What you'll do
- Own and work with a team of engineers to design, build, implement and manage secure, scalable, and reliable cloud-based Database as a Service (DbaaS) platform to support the New Relic Product Platform portfolio.
- Drive and contribute to the software architecture and design of our existing large-scale distributed systems and new DbaaS Platform.
- Own and drive the vision and strategy for the DbaaS platform and provide architectural guidance for security, reliability, scalability, resilience, disaster recovery, performance optimization, and cost.
- Manage technical roadmaps, balancing new features, service reliability, and technical debt reduction.
- Collaborate with leadership, product management, and engineering to align priorities and plans.
- Drive a culture of operational and business efficiency, including secure code practices, CI/CD pipeline, testing, and blameless postmortems.
- Attend Livesite meetings and bring postmortem learnings back to the team and organization.
- Promote good software engineering practices like SOLID design principles and object-oriented programming.
- Coach and mentor team members.
- Drive the recruitment, training, development, and retention of talent.
- Collaborate with PMs, technical leaders, and stakeholders to clarify project requirements and execute cross-team initiatives.
This role requires
- 10 years of programming and administration experience with technical depth in databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Redis on cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.
- 6+ years of people management experience.
- Hands-on experience in software architecture and design for large-scale multi-tiered Database Platforms.
- Expertise in building and maintaining secure, scalable, and highly available cloud-agnostic DBaaS platforms.
- Strong DevOps experience in developing and maintaining database infrastructure on major public cloud platforms.
- Experience with architectural patterns for resiliency and disaster recovery.
- Experience in large, complex, geographically distributed enterprise environments.
- Proficient in Infrastructure-as-Code for multi-cloud deployments.
- Familiarity with modern cloud deployments, compute, storage, networking, and security.
- Strong communication skills for engaging technical and executive audiences.
- Experience with Livesite and postmortems.
- Ability to coach and mentor engineers or managers in their growth.
- Experience with cross-team projects and risk identification.
Bonus points if you have
- Strong experience in cloud DBaaS production environments.
- Experience with tools like Crossplane for managing cloud services.
- RDBMS skills in SQL or NoSQL, including schema design and performance tuning.
- Experience with Vector Database.
- Experience in large SaaS environments.
Additional Information
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.
If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application or recruiting process, please visit this link to submit your request.
New Relic is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We foster a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, free from all types of discrimination.
Estimated Base Pay Range: $194,000 - $242,000. This role is eligible for a corporate bonus plan. Pay within this range varies by location and job-related factors.