New Relic
Software Engineer - IAM (Java)
Portland, Oregon, USA · Junior
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odds of building a lasting career here
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~45% per draw at Level III). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
Lottery odds assume a STEM candidate.
Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$14,773 more — $128,773 — moves this role to Level II and 2 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $128,773 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- On the authorization side, it means the roles, capabilities, and grants model that every other team at New Relic checks against before letting a user touch anything.
- Because these services sit underneath everything else, the problems here are rarely simple CRUD.
- You'll also carry on-call for these systems, because when they have a bad day, so does the rest of New Relic.
Responsibilities
- Build APIs and internal tooling that let other engineering teams and internal stakeholders manage and troubleshoot user data and access controls.
- Collaborate closely with product management, product design, and your engineering team to solve complex use cases.
Requirements
- 1+ years of experience building and shipping reliable software services.
- Experience with Identity and Access Management protocols (SCIM, OAuth2, SAML, or OIDC).
- Experience with GraphQL APIs.
- Experience with observability tools and platforms.
- Experience with container technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker.
Nice to have
- our services span Ruby, Java, and others, with Ruby or Java preferred.
- Expertise in backend languages
Compensation
- The pay range below represents a reasonable estimate of the salary for the listed position.
- Estimated Base Pay Range
- $114,000 - $142,000 USD
Benefits
- Bonus points if you have
- This role is eligible for a corporate bonus plan.
Company info
- Investigate and fix reliability, data-integrity, and security issues in production systems, including routine dependency and container vulnerability remediation.
- Expertise in backend languages; our services span Ruby, Java, and others, with Ruby or Java preferred.
- Experience working with data models and managing data at scale, including comfort writing and reasoning about SQL against relational databases.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, especially explaining technical tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders.
- Comfort working alongside AI coding assistants for day-to-day development, this team uses them as a core part of the workflow.
- Experience working in the public cloud (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP).
- Use AI coding assistants daily, for implementation, debugging, and code review, as a normal part of how the team ships code.
- Build and operate authentication services, including SSO (SAML, OIDC), OAuth2/OIDC token issuance, session and token lifecycle, SCIM-based user provisioning, and bot/fraud defense, for both direct login and enterprise SSO customers.
- Participate in the team's on-call/hero rotation: triage production incidents, investigate access, authentication, and authorization issues reported by other teams and customers, and turn resolutions into runbooks.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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