Senior Staff Platform Engineer - Kubernetes

Responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy, and operate components and services within a cloud-native platform.
• Lead well-scoped projects by translating requirements and rough ideas into technical designs and delivered solutions.
• Build operators, controllers, automation, and platform services used by other teams.
• Contribute to reliability, scalability, operability, testing, instrumentation, and runbook improvements.
• Participate in on-call operations.
• Collaborate with senior, staff, and principal engineers on platform architecture and standards.
• Mentor and onboard junior engineers through code reviews, design feedback, and pairing.
• Evaluate and apply AI-enabled coding, operational tooling, and workflow automation where appropriate.

Requirements

• 12+ years of software development experience with a bachelor's degree, or 8+ years with a master's degree, or 5+ years with a PhD, or equivalent work experience.
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience building, deploying, and operating workloads on Kubernetes.
• Experience with at least one major hyperscaler—AWS, Azure, or GCP—including core compute, networking, and IAM primitives.
• Track record of delivering complex features or services as a key contributor.
• Working knowledge of containers, CI/CD, GitOps-based delivery, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Strong programming skills in Go or another systems language with willingness to work primarily in Go.
• Experience building Kubernetes controllers or using the operator pattern is helpful.
• Familiarity with container networking, service mesh, workload identity, mutual TLS, secrets management, and observability is helpful.

Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work arrangement requiring 2 days per week in a ServiceNow office; the role supports US regulated markets.
• Health plans including flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) plan with company match, ESPP, matching donations, flexible time away, and family leave programs.
• Regular employee position with work persona listed as Flexible or Remote.
• Employment is contingent on passing USFedPASS screening, including credit, criminal/misdemeanor, and drug-test checks.
• Only US citizens, naturalized citizens, or US permanent residents holding a green card will be considered.