Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform - Kubernetes - Distributed Systems - Federal
ServiceNow2 days ago
San Diego, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$150k - $262k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, deploy, and operate cloud-native platform components and services end-to-end.
- Lead well-scoped projects by translating requirements and rough ideas into technical designs and delivered solutions.
- Build Kubernetes operators, controllers, automation, and platform services used by other teams.
- Improve reliability, scalability, operability, testing, instrumentation, and runbooks while participating in on-call.
- Collaborate with senior, staff, and principal engineers on platform architecture and standards.
- Onboard and mentor junior engineers through code reviews, design feedback, and pairing.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software development experience with a bachelor’s degree, 5+ years with a master’s degree, 3+ years with a PhD, 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, including core compute, networking, and IAM primitives.
- Strong programming skills in Go or another systems language with willingness to work primarily in Go.
- Experience delivering complex features or services as a key contributor.
- Working knowledge of containers, CI/CD, GitOps-based delivery, and infrastructure as code.
- Experience integrating or critically evaluating AI in engineering work.
- Preferred experience includes Kubernetes controllers or operator patterns, container networking, service mesh, workload identity, mTLS, secrets management, observability, managed Kubernetes, and Terraform.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid position requiring two days per week in a ServiceNow office; listed locations include San Francisco, Pleasanton, Santa Clara, San Diego, and Kirkland.
- Benefits include health plans, 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 a ServiceNow background screening, including credit, criminal/misdemeanor, and drug checks.
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.