Software Engineer - Container Fabric

Portland · Oregon · USD 126,000-158,000 · Hybrid · Posted Sep 24, 2026

At a glance

Join New Relic’s Container Fabric team to shape the global internal platform by building resilient, scalable systems that empower engineering teams.
Drive platform evolution, work with cloud-native tools, and push the boundaries of modern infrastructure.

Oversee and enhance a massive Kubernetes infrastructure platform, ensuring peak availability, performance, and reliability.
Evolve internal tooling to eliminate manual overhead and streamline platform delivery across global teams.
Manage Day 1 and Day 2 operations for Kubernetes clusters using modern scaling frameworks.
Partner with a supportive engineering team to manage production environments and lead high-severity incident responses calmly and efficiently.

A background in DevOps, Site Reliability, or Infrastructure Engineering managing production environments.
Deep working knowledge of K8s primitives (Deployments, StatefulSets, Services) and hands-on experience building custom Kubernetes Operators.
Strong skills in Go for systems programming and infrastructure automation.
Proven experience managing production stability, monitoring, and resolving high-severity incidents.

Experience with cloud-native auto-scaling technologies such as Karpenter or Cluster API.
Practical familiarity with Helm and GitOps tools like ArgoCD or Flux to manage continuous deployment workflows.

Operates under a flexible workforce model allowing fully office-based, fully remote, or hybrid arrangements.