Senior Staff Data Platform Software Engineer (Java Distributed Systems & Kafka)
ServiceNow1 month ago
Hyderābād, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, and build high-performance distributed systems and platform components.
- Build scalable distributed-systems data ingestion solutions and fault-tolerant transformation workflows.
- Develop clean, modular, reusable code and foundational libraries, frameworks, and tools.
- Provide technical leadership for complex, high-risk projects and collaborate across engineering teams.
- 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 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.
- Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems and working in DevOps environments.
- Experience with relational databases such as Oracle, MySQL, or PostgreSQL.
- Experience 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, compaction, governance, Data Lakes, analytics engines, query services, or ML platforms.
Benefits
- Regular employee position in the APAC region.
- Flexible work persona with flexibility based on work location and role requirements.
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.