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Director of Engineering, New Relic Database (NRDB)

New Relic
United States, Oregon, Portland
111 Southwest 5th Avenue (Show on map)
Sep 12, 2025
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! Your opportunity New Relic is looking for a Director of Engineering to lead the evolution of our core platform, the New Relic Database (NRDB). NRDB is the exabyte-scale analytics platform that powers all the insights and analytics for our observability products. As a Director, you'll be responsible for scaling, optimizing, and innovating this critical system, ensuring it continues to provide the fast, reliable, and powerful analytics our customers depend on. You'll lead a team of talented engineers spread across the US and Spain, fostering a collaborative and high-performing culture. What you'll do Lead the NRDB vision: Drive the technical strategy and roadmap for NRDB, ensuring it meets the evolving needs of our platform and customers. Innovate at scale: Oversee the development of our next-generation distributed database engine and exabyte-scale analytics platform. Manage a global team: Lead, mentor, and grow a globally distributed team of engineers, promoting a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Champion operational excellence: Ensure the NRDB platform is highly available, performant, and reliable, and that our teams maintain a high standard of code quality and operational practices. Collaborate across teams: Partner with product management, engineering leaders, and other stakeholders to align on priorities and deliver value to our customers. Recruit and retain talent: Attract, hire, and retain top engineering talent to build a world-class team. This role requires Minimum 12 - 15 years of relevant experience in large scale environment. Deep technical expertise: Significant experience building and operating database engines, distributed systems, or other high-performance systems at scale. You should have a solid understanding of database internals, query processing, and data storage architectures. Leadership experience: Proven experience managing engineering teams, ideally with experience managing geographically dispersed teams. Communication and collaboration: Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. Strategic thinking: The ability to define and execute on a long-term technical vision while also delivering on short-term goals. Problem-solving: A passion for solving complex, large-scale technical challenges. Adaptability: Experience working in a fast-paced, agile environment. Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position. #LI-MM1#LI-Remote 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 resume@newrelic.com. We believe in empowering all Relics to achieve professional and business success through a flexible workforce model. This model allows us to work in a variety of workplaces that best support our success, including fully office-based, fully remote, or hybrid. Our hiring process In compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work and to complete employment eligibility verification. Note: Our stewardship of the data of thousands of customers means that a criminal background check is required to join New Relic. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records based on individual circumstances and in accordance with applicable law including, but not limited to, theSan Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. New Relic does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes, and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with New Relic. 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