Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

We are a global 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. If you're ready to help the world's best companies optimize their digital applications, we invite you to explore a career with us! About the Team The NR Lens team builds New Relic's Federated Data Platform — a distributed SQL query engine that lets customers connect external data sources (Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Google Sheets, AWS CloudWatch) and query them directly from New Relic. You'll work on the distributed query execution layer, connector architecture, and API gateway that powers cross-source JOINs and unified analytics across customer data stores. What You'll Do - Design, build, and maintain cloud-native Java microservices in the NR Lens query path: SQL Gateway, Query Gateway, and data source connector plugins - Develop and harden JDBC connector integrations — including connection lifecycle management, credential handling, query pushdown optimization, and security validation - Improve query reliability and performance across a multi-tenant distributed SQL deployment serving 50+ customers - Build and operate se...