Senior Software Engineer - Open Source Node.js Team (Open to Remote)

Description

Your Opportunity

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

Do you love making lightweight and efficient applications in Node.js? Want to help software engineers create more perfect software, experiences, and businesses? Are you interested in contributing to and maintaining open source projects?

New Relic’s Node.js Agent Team is seeking a strong Software Engineer to work with the team to instrument, measure, and improve the internet! We love making software that improves the lives of people who make software. Our products help customers answer their most important questions by allowing them to visualize, explore, and understand their ops, application, and customer data.

Opportunity to work from a remote office may be available depending on applicant location.

What You’ll Do

• Delight customers by giving them key insights into their applications through instrumenting key Node.js frameworks and driving improvements!
• Empathize with customer... needs and trade-offs to inform solutions to complex problems.
• Work with the Node.js community by delivering open source software from New Relic and participating in various open source projects outside of New Relic.
• Collaborate with team members, product management, and across other language agent teams to deliver the best possible features for our customers.
• Serve as a Node.js knowledge resource for the organization. Help us stay up to date with the Node.js ecosystem, libraries, and developer tendencies.

Your Qualifications

Must-have:

• An understanding of Node’s async execution and event loop.
• 3+ years of Node.js experience in a team environment.
• Demonstrate solid software engineering skills.
• Accountable for the software you ship and for the overall success of the team.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience engaging in open source projects.
• Knowledge of or participation in the OpenTelemetry project.

We’re looking for bold and passionate people to be a part of our mission to create more perfect software. We’d love to have you apply, even if you don’t feel you meet every single requirement. What’s most important to us is finding authentic and accountable people who feel connected to our mission and values, not just candidates who check off all the boxes.

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