Senior Staff Data Platform Software Engineer (Java Distributed Systems & Kakfa)
ServiceNow6 hours ago
Hyderābād, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, and build high-performance distributed systems and platform components.
- Develop scalable distributed-systems data-ingestion solutions with strong quality and operational-excellence practices.
- Write clean, modular, reusable code and enforce code reviews, unit testing, automation, and design reviews.
- Build foundational libraries, frameworks, and tools emphasizing modularity, extensibility, configurability, and maintainability.
- Collaborate across engineering teams to refine requirements and deliver end-to-end solutions.
- Provide technical leadership for projects with significant complexity and risk.
- Research, evaluate, 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.
- Strong fundamentals in distributed-systems architecture, design patterns, and algorithms.
- Deep Java programming expertise, including JVM internals, memory models, and garbage collection.
- Experience with JVM performance tuning, profiling, and diagnosing performance bottlenecks.
- Strong understanding of concurrency, networking, sockets, operating-system internals, and performance optimization.
- Hands-on experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience with relational databases such as Oracle, MySQL, or PostgreSQL.
- Deep knowledge of replication, fault-tolerance, and high-availability strategies.
- Experience working in DevOps environments to operationalize distributed platforms.
- Expertise designing and architecting platforms using Kubernetes.
- Apache Iceberg, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and Apache Spark experience is a plus.
- Expertise with Parquet, ORC, and Avro data formats, including compaction and governance strategies.
- Ability to build scalable, fault-tolerant ingestion and transformation workflows.
- Experience integrating data lakes with analytics engines, query services, or ML platforms.
Benefits
- Flexible work persona arrangement, with flexible, remote, or required-in-office work categories 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.