Staff Data Platform Software Engineer - veza
ServiceNow5 hours ago
Base Salary
$176k - $308k/yr
Responsibilities
- Act as the technical expert for the Veza Access Graph and translate broad technical, functional, and business challenges into executable initiatives.
- Design and implement scalable backend systems, graph data models, APIs, and distributed-system solutions from architecture through production delivery.
- Define coding standards, engineering best practices, quality expectations, documentation, testing, and support practices.
- Set roadmap priorities, lead workstream planning and design reviews, identify dependencies, and drive execution across teams.
- Make technical decisions with organization-wide impact and simplify systems across the platform.
- Mentor team leads and individual contributors, contribute to interview loops, and develop coaching plans.
- Represent roadmap dependencies in company-wide initiatives and drive stakeholder alignment, conflict resolution, and delivery.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional backend software development experience focused on scalable distributed systems, data management, identity, security, or related domains.
- Strong understanding of distributed-systems fundamentals, including consistency models, partitioning and sharding, replication, consensus, and failure modes at scale.
- Expertise in graph database internals, including traversal algorithms, query planning and optimization, and indexing strategies.
- Production-level Go experience involving concurrency, memory and performance tuning, backend services, and testing.
- Experience with large-scale graph data modeling, RESTful APIs, microservice architectures, cloud platforms, and containerization or orchestration.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and Docker or Kubernetes, plus familiarity with distributed caching mechanisms.
- Demonstrated ability to set technical direction or standards adopted by multiple teams and make decisions with organization-wide impact.
- Experience designing systems for correctness and rollback safety in high-stakes infrastructure.
- Fluency with AI-assisted engineering tools such as Claude Code or Copilot, including validating generated output against source code, tests, and runtime behavior.
- Preferred qualifications include storage-engine or query-engine development, Neo4j internals or comparable experience, relational algebra, graph algorithms, OLTP and OLAP systems, identity and access management concepts, and security or compliance-adjacent engineering.
- A graduate degree is preferred.
Benefits
- Base pay of $176,100 - $308,200, plus equity when applicable and variable or incentive compensation.
- Health plans including flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) plan with company match, ESPP, matching donations, flexible time away, and family leave programs.
- Flexible, remote, or required-in-office work personas may apply depending on the role and work location.
- Regular employee position in the AMS - North America and Canada region with a flexible work persona.
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About ServiceNow
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