Principal Software Engineer - Multi-Cloud - Control Plane - Kubernetes
ServiceNow21 days ago
Base Salary
$255k - $445k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction and architecture standards for a cloud-native platform spanning Kubernetes, distributed systems, and hyperscaler infrastructure.
- Own multi-cloud topology, control-plane design, workload isolation, identity and trust fabrics, and fleet-scale reliability challenges.
- Drive consistent architectural decisions and best-practice adoption across multiple engineering organizations.
- Assess technical risks and make decisions about managed versus self-managed infrastructure, substrate portability, and multi-hyperscaler strategy.
- Design and build critical platform components including control planes, operators, and infrastructure abstractions.
- Mentor staff and principal engineers and shape the organization’s technical leadership.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
- Deep experience running Kubernetes at multi-cluster, multi-region, and multi-tenant scale.
- Hands-on experience with one or more major hyperscalers and their managed Kubernetes offerings, including networking, IAM, and capacity tradeoffs.
- Proven technical leadership across multiple engineering teams and the ability to influence architecture without positional authority.
- Deep expertise in operator/controller patterns, infrastructure-as-code, control planes, GitOps delivery, container networking, and service mesh.
- Strong programming skills in Go and fluency across the cloud-native ecosystem.
- Experience integrating AI into engineering or platform work is required.
- Preferred experience includes identity and trust fabrics, workload isolation, runtime security, regulated or federal platforms, observability at scale, and platform-as-a-product practices.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work arrangement requiring 2 days per week in a ServiceNow office, with listed offices in Santa Clara, San Diego, and Kirkland.
- 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 with compensation and benefits based on geographic work location.
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