Senior Staff Data Platform Engineer - Data Access Team
ServiceNow13 hours ago
Base Salary
$201k - $352k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set the technical direction and architecture strategy for the data access layer.
- Design and build core data architecture focused on scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
- Own cross-team features from design through delivery and translate business requirements into architectural solutions.
- Lead design and code reviews across multiple teams.
- Define functional, regression, integration, and performance testing strategies.
- Diagnose and resolve complex production issues involving memory leaks, concurrency, locking, networking, and intermittent failures.
- Mentor engineers at all levels and raise engineering quality standards.
- Author design documents and RFCs and present technical strategy to senior engineering leadership.
Requirements
- 12+ years of software development experience with a bachelor’s degree, 8+ years with a master’s degree, 5+ years with a PhD, or equivalent work experience.
- Demonstrated technical leadership at the Staff or Senior Staff level or equivalent.
- Expert-level Java development experience.
- Advanced to expert-level backend platform development experience.
- Expert understanding of object-oriented and modularized software design, especially in Java.
- Experience with relational databases including PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, and Trino.
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, design patterns, and performance optimization at scale.
- Experience with automated testing frameworks such as JUnit, Selenium, or TestNG and integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines.
- Deep understanding of software quality principles, reliability, observability, and production readiness.
- Understanding of cloud-based and distributed systems.
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly and deliver complex cross-team projects with quality.
- Experience troubleshooting difficult production issues across the stack.
- Track record of influencing architecture and engineering decisions across multiple teams without direct authority.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Familiarity with the ServiceNow platform, RDBMS internals, Neo4J, graph databases, Unix shell, DevOps environments, or customer-focused environments is preferred.
- Experience critically considering or integrating AI into engineering work is preferred.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work persona requiring 2 days per week in a ServiceNow office; listed offices include San Francisco, Pleasanton, Santa Clara, San Diego, and Kirkland.
- Health plans including flexible spending accounts.
- 401(k) plan with company match.
- Employee stock purchase plan.
- Matching donations.
- Flexible time-away plan.
- Family leave programs.
- Regular employee position.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About ServiceNow
ServiceNow builds a cloud platform for enterprise digital workflows, covering IT service management, customer service, HR service delivery, security operations, and operations management, plus tools for custom app development. It sells subscription SaaS to large organizations and public-sector agencies to automate processes and connect data across systems. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, ServiceNow is a public company listed on the NYSE under the ticker NOW.