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Senior Software Engineer - SRE & AIOps

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4 hours ago
Santa Clara, CA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$143k - $243k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot production Kubernetes clusters across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
  • Design and maintain automated remediation, self-healing, alerting, and runbook systems to reduce MTTR and operational toil.
  • Contribute to monitoring, incident management, log aggregation, and observability tooling for global on-call operations.
  • Develop SLO frameworks, alerting policies, automated runbooks, Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks, and GitOps pipelines.
  • Support hybrid cloud, data center, multi-region, containerization, microservices, DevOps, CI/CD, and network security operations.
  • Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, post-incident reviews, and continuous reliability improvements.
  • Mentor junior SRE engineers and share reliability, incident investigation, and automation practices.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering or infrastructure operations experience, including 3+ years in SRE, DevOps, or cloud platform engineering with a bachelor's degree; alternatives include 3 years with a master's degree, a PhD without experience, or equivalent work experience.
  • 2+ years of hands-on experience operating production Kubernetes clusters.
  • Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Proficiency with at least one Infrastructure-as-Code tool such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
  • Experience with on-call operations, incident response, automated remediation, and alert systems.
  • Strong Linux system administration, performance troubleshooting, and scripting skills using Python, Go, or Bash.
  • Understanding of distributed systems, fault tolerance, resilience patterns, hybrid cloud concepts, and 24/7 operational models.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
  • Preferred qualifications include CKA or CKAD certification, service mesh or advanced Kubernetes networking experience, cloud migration or modernization experience, cloud cost optimization, and significant operational toil reduction.

Benefits

  • Regular employee position with a flexible work persona and distributed-work flexibility.
  • Health plans including flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) plan with company match, ESPP, matching donations, flexible time away, and family leave programs.
  • Base compensation is supplemented by equity when applicable and variable or incentive compensation.
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ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) makes the world work better for everyone. Our cloud-based platform and solutions help digitize and unify organizations so that they can find smarter, faster, better ways to make work flow. So employees and customers can be more connected, more innovative, and more agile. And we can all create the future we imagine. The world works with ServiceNow. For more information, visit www.servicenow.com.

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