Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Company Description

It all started in sunny San Diego, California in 2004 when a visionary engineer, Fred Luddy, saw the potential to transform how we work. Fast forward to today — ServiceNow stands as a global market leader, bringing innovative AI-enhanced technology to over 8,100 customers, including 85% of the Fortune 500®. Our intelligent cloud-based platform seamlessly connects people, systems, and processes to empower organizations to find smarter, faster, and better ways to work. But this is just the beginning of our journey. Join us as we pursue our purpose to make the world work better for everyone.

Job Description

• Closely work with machine learning, search, product, data, and frontend teams, understand their infrastructure needs, influence infrastructure roadmap, and lead as well as execute on various projects
• Architect and build out the core infrastructure and foundational functionalities such as distributed key value store, schema-less data store, authentication and authorization, event streaming, distributed configuration management and hot reloading, rate limiting and circuit breaking, system for feature flags and A/B testing, traffic capture and replay, etc.
• Improve observability and reliability of Moveworks systems by building and enhancing distributed logging, tracing, monitoring, and alerting infrastructure
• Define methodologies and metrics to measure performance of microservices and product functionalities, identify and fix bottlenecks, as well as improve overall performance and scalability of Moveworks applications
• Regularly deliver deadline sensitive work that is interdependent with other engineering teams

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience designing, building, shipping, and maintaining products or platforms
• Experience designing, building, shipping, and maintaining backend distributed systems
• Familiarity with Python/Golang/Java/C++
• Experience with containers/Docker, and with cloud infrastructure like AWS/GCP/Azure
• Experience working with and operating open source technologies like Kafka, Elasticsearch or Opensearch, Istio, etc.
• Desire to work at a startup pace in a small company with a high degree of ownership
• Experience solving for performance, optimization, scalability, latency, and monitoring
• Strong motivation, gumption, and an appetite for continuous, incremental changes and completing challenging projects fast
• BS+ in computer science or a related field
• High level of curiosity about engineering outside of your immediate discipline and an incessant desire to learn

Additional Information

Base Salary Range: $143,200 - $243,000

Work Personas

We approach our distributed world of work with flexibility and trust. Work personas (flexible, remote, or required in office) are categories that are assigned to ServiceNow employees depending on the nature of their work and their assigned work location. Learn more here. To determine eligibility for a work persona, ServiceNow may confirm the distance between your primary residence and the closest ServiceNow office using a third-party service.

Equal Opportunity Employer

ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements.

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