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Meet New Relic

New Relic is a US software company founded in 2008 by Lew Cirne and headquartered in San Francisco. It provides a cloud-based observability platform used by software engineers, site reliability engineers, DevOps teams and IT operations professionals to monitor applications and infrastructure. Its products include application performance monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, log management, distributed tracing, digital experience monitoring, AI application observability and incident analysis. The platform collects and analyzes metrics, events, logs and traces to help organizations investigate performance problems, reduce service disruptions and understand the impact of technology on customer experiences. New Relic serves businesses across industries operating cloud, hybrid and on-premises systems. In November 2023, Francisco Partners and TPG completed an approximately USD 6.5 billion acquisition, taking the company private.View more

New Relic is a US software company founded in 2008 by Lew Cirne and headquartered in San Francisco. It provides a cloud-based observability platform used by software engineers, site reliability engineers, DevOps teams and IT operations professionals to monitor applications and infrastructure. Its products include application performance monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, log management, distributed tracing, digital experience monitoring, AI application observability and incident analysis. The platform collects and analyzes metrics, events, logs and traces to help organizations investigate performance problems, reduce service disruptions and understand the impact of technology on customer experiences. New Relic serves businesses across industries operating cloud, hybrid and on-premises systems. In November 2023, Francisco Partners and TPG completed an approximately USD 6.5 billion acquisition, taking the company private.

Founded
2008
Company size
1,001-5,000 employees
Company stage
Not known
Headquarters
San Francisco, USA

Why work here

New Relic offers opportunities to work on large-scale observability, distributed systems, application monitoring, real-time data processing and AI-assisted operations. Its engineering teams develop systems that collect and analyze large volumes of telemetry data, creating technical challenges in scalability, data pipelines and reliability. The company reported serving more than 85,000 global customers in March 2026. Engineering job descriptions reference Java, Go, Kafka, Kubernetes and AWS, while its open-source projects include monitoring agents for several programming languages. New Relic operates engineering centres in Bengaluru and Hyderabad, and its India organization reported Great Place to Work certification in 2025. Published employee benefits include flexible work arrangements, professional training, paid leave, parental leave, healthcare and wellness support, with eligibility varying by location.Read more

New Relic offers opportunities to work on large-scale observability, distributed systems, application monitoring, real-time data processing and AI-assisted operations. Its engineering teams develop systems that collect and analyze large volumes of telemetry data, creating technical challenges in scalability, data pipelines and reliability. The company reported serving more than 85,000 global customers in March 2026. Engineering job descriptions reference Java, Go, Kafka, Kubernetes and AWS, while its open-source projects include monitoring agents for several programming languages. New Relic operates engineering centres in Bengaluru and Hyderabad, and its India organization reported Great Place to Work certification in 2025. Published employee benefits include flexible work arrangements, professional training, paid leave, parental leave, healthcare and wellness support, with eligibility varying by location.

Industry
Cloud & DevTools
Open jobs
44 open jobs
Notable investors
Francisco Partners, TPG, Benchmark, Insight Partners, Trinity Ventures, Tenaya Capital, BlackRock

Tech stack

Java

Programming Language

Go

Programming Language

Python

Programming Language

JavaScript

Programming Language

Ruby

Programming Language

React

Frontend Framework

Node.js

Backend Runtime

GraphQL

API Query Language

Apache Kafka

Event Streaming

Kubernetes

Container Orchestration

Docker

Containerization

AWS

Cloud Infrastructure

OpenTelemetry

Observability Framework

Key people

7 people
Lew CirneCo-founderView bio

Founder and former CEO of New Relic. Cirne earned a degree in Computer Science from Dartmouth College and previously held engineering roles at Apple and Hummingbird Communications. He founded Wily Technology in 1998, pioneering application performance management software before its acquisition by CA Technologies in 2006. He established New Relic in 2008 to deliver application performance monitoring as a cloud service and led the company through its 2014 IPO.

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Nandini RamaniChief Executive OfficerView bio

CEO of New Relic since October 1, 2026. Previously Vice President at Amazon Web Services, overseeing services including CloudWatch, OpenSearch and CloudTrail. Earlier leadership experience includes X, Oracle and Sun Microsystems. She holds a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, and is an inventor with 17 patents. She leads New Relic's business strategy, product direction and international operations.

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Michael FrendoChief Technology OfficerView bio

CTO of New Relic since March 2026, responsible for technology strategy, architecture and engineering execution. Previously served as CTO of Engineering at Proofpoint and held senior technology leadership positions at Cisco, Polycom and Juniper. He has more than 25 years of experience across networking, cloud software, security and telecommunications. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from McMaster University.

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Brian EmersonChief Product OfficerView bio

Chief Product Officer responsible for New Relic's product strategy, platform innovation, user experience and roadmap. Previously Group Vice President and General Manager at ServiceNow, where he led the IT Operations Management business. Earlier product leadership roles included VMware, BMC Software and Remedy. He has over 25 years of software industry experience and studied Operations Management and Information Systems at Santa Clara University.

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Ashish AgarwalChief Financial OfficerView bio

Chief Financial Officer of New Relic, overseeing financial strategy and operations. Previously served as Interim CFO and Senior Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development at McAfee. Earlier roles included corporate development leadership at Akamai and Symantec and investment banking positions at UBS and Citi. He holds an Economics degree from Delhi University and an MBA from the Wharton School.

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Hein HellemonsChief Revenue OfficerView bio

Chief Revenue Officer of New Relic, responsible for worldwide sales, revenue strategy and global go-to-market operations. He has more than 25 years of experience leading enterprise technology sales organizations. Previously held senior leadership positions at Darktrace, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and VMware. He holds a master's degree in Economics from the University of Amsterdam.

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Ashley PulsChief ArchitectView bio

Chief Architect at New Relic, responsible for the architecture, reliability and scalability of its observability platform. Previously served as Group Vice President of Engineering at New Relic and worked as a software engineer at Raytheon. She has more than 15 years of engineering experience and holds a Mathematics degree from Haverford College and a master's degree in Computer and Information Technology from the University of Pennsylvania.

Latest company news

6 stories

New Relic Appoints Boomi CEO Steve Lucas as Chair of the Board of Directors

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New Relic appointed Steve Lucas as Chair of its Board of Directors. Lucas currently serves as Chairman and CEO of Boomi and previously led enterprise software companies including Marketo and iCIMS. His experience includes senior leadership roles at SAP, Salesforce and Adobe. The appointment supports New Relic's governance and enterprise software strategy.

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New Relic Brings Intelligent Observability Directly into GitHub Copilot

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New Relic announced integrations with GitHub Copilot and GitHub MCP Server. The capabilities connect deployment activity and AI-assisted coding workflows with production telemetry, enabling developers to identify regressions, investigate incidents and review the effects of code changes. New Relic Change Tracking entered public preview, while the Autopilot and Preflight integrations were announced as generally available.

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New Relic Introduces AI Evaluation for Monitoring AI Application Quality and Business Impact

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New Relic introduced AI Evaluation, an observability capability that connects AI application response quality with distributed traces, operational performance and model costs. It includes automated evaluations for hallucinations, prompt injection, data leakage and response relevance. The company announced that the capability would enter public preview in November 2026.

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New Relic Launches Ground Truth CLI for Developers and AI Agents

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New Relic announced Ground Truth CLI, a command-line interface that connects developers and AI agents with production observability data. The tool supports incident investigation, recovery verification and access to operational context through terminal workflows. The company scheduled a limited preview beginning October 8, 2026.

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New Relic Unveils Infrastructure 360 for Cloud Infrastructure Visibility

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New Relic announced Infrastructure 360, a platform capability designed to help engineering teams monitor cloud resources, configuration changes and infrastructure dependencies. It provides visibility into AWS and Azure resources, Kubernetes environments and application infrastructure relationships. Public preview was scheduled for October 13, 2026.

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New Relic Appoints Nandini Ramani as Chief Executive Officer

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New Relic appointed Nandini Ramani as CEO and a member of its Board of Directors, effective October 1, 2026. She succeeded Ashan Willy, who transitioned to an advisory role. Ramani previously held senior engineering and product leadership roles at AWS, including responsibility for observability, search and cloud governance services.

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Jobs at New Relic

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