We are a general team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic, we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI‑first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission.

Your opportunity At New Relic, we provide our customers real‑time insights so they can innovate faster. Our software delivers insightful observability tools across different technologies and distributed systems, enabling software engineering teams to quickly identify, understand, and tackle issues, analyze performance, and get the most out of their software and infrastructure. This is a great opportunity to shape the future of observability, work on complex and interesting problems, and empower companies to thrive in an AI‑first world.

What You’ll Do

Build, maintain, and scale backend services and their support tools

Participate in architectural definitions with a high degree of innovation and creativity

Work closely with product and experience teams to understand product specifications and influence the roadmap for the distributed tracing product at New Relic

Create automation and tooling to make our systems more scalable and easier to deploy

Work in an agile environment with a DevOps approach; teams build and maintain their own software, including participating in on‑call rotations

Use AI tools to accelerate your development workflow, from writing and reviewing code to investigating production issues and helping the team adopt what works





Embrace a culture of technical excellence and shared knowledge

This role requires

Experience with distributed systems, concurrency, and scaling in production environments

Strong experience writing software in OOP languages (Kotlin, Java, Go, etc.) and comfort adapting to different languages and frameworks

Familiarity with asynchronous programming techniques: streams, event‑based flows, task queues, message queues

Comfort working in a fast‑paced environment focused on delivering production code at a regular cadence using Agile techniques, tools, and methodologies

A collaborative work style that includes colleagues in important decisions and leads to shared code ownership

Adaptability in a rapidly changing industry, curiosity about AI and readiness to enhance your development workflow

Proficiency in English

Bonus points if you have

Contributions to open source projects

Understanding of the value that build and test automation brings to development team efficiency and reliability, with passion for applying these techniques

Experience with OpenTelemetry or related industry knowledge

Experience in technical mentorship and supporting colleagues' skill development

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

Candidates are evaluated based on qualifications, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, age, disability, neurodiversity, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or any other legally protected characteristics.

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📌 Software Engineer II - Backend (Madrid)
🏢 New Relic
📍 Madrid