Senior Staff Platform Engineer - Kubernetes - Federal
ServiceNow2 days ago
San Diego, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$172k - $301k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, deploy, and operate cloud-native platform components and services.
- Lead projects from requirements and rough concepts through technical design and delivery.
- Build operators, controllers, automation, and platform services used by other teams.
- Improve reliability, scalability, operability, instrumentation, testing, and runbooks, and participate in on-call rotations.
- Collaborate with senior, staff, and principal engineers on platform architecture and standards.
- Onboard and mentor junior engineers through code review, design feedback, and pairing.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of software development experience, or a Master's degree and 8+ years, or a PhD and 5+ years, 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 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 integrating or critically evaluating AI in engineering work.
- Preferred experience with Kubernetes controllers, the operator pattern, container networking or service mesh, workload identity, mTLS, secrets management, metrics, tracing, and dashboards.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work arrangement requiring two days per week in a ServiceNow office.
- Base pay of $171,900–$300,800, plus potential equity, variable compensation, and benefits.
- 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 supporting US regulated markets and requiring federal personnel authorization screening, including credit, criminal/misdemeanor, and drug checks.
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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.