Senior Staff Data Platform Software Engineer (Java Distributed Systems & Kafka)
ServiceNow1 month ago
Hyderābād, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, build, and operate high-performance distributed systems and data platform components.
- Develop scalable distributed data-ingestion solutions and fault-tolerant ingestion and transformation workflows.
- Build foundational libraries, frameworks, and tools emphasizing modularity, extensibility, configurability, and maintainability.
- Deliver clean, reusable code and enforce engineering practices including code reviews, unit testing, automation, and design reviews.
- Provide technical leadership for complex, high-risk initiatives and collaborate across engineering teams on end-to-end solutions.
- Research and adopt technologies that improve platform capabilities.
- Troubleshoot and diagnose complex production issues across distributed systems.
Requirements
- 15–20 years of hands-on engineering experience in distributed systems, data platforms, or large-scale backend infrastructure.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, design patterns, algorithms, replication, fault tolerance, and high availability.
- Strong Java programming expertise, including JVM internals, memory models, garbage collection, performance tuning, profiling, and bottleneck diagnosis.
- Strong understanding of concurrency, networking, sockets, operating system internals, and performance optimization.
- Hands-on experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems and working in DevOps environments.
- Experience with relational databases such as Oracle, MySQL, or PostgreSQL.
- Expertise with Kubernetes; Apache Iceberg, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and Apache Spark experience is a plus.
- Knowledge of Parquet, ORC, Avro, compaction, governance, Data Lakes, analytics engines, query services, or ML platforms.
- Ability to provide strong technical leadership and drive complex platform initiatives.
Benefits
- Flexible work persona with remote, flexible, or office-based arrangements determined by role and location.
- Regular employee position in the APAC—Asia Pacific region.
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.