Senior Staff SRE & Release Platform Lead (Remote)

Servicenow; Dublin; On-site; EUR 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ServiceNow seeks a Sr. Staff Software Engineer – SRE, Release & Test Platforms to build and operate cloud-native engineering platforms for software validation, release qualification, and operational readiness.

You will design production-like release environments, develop automated quality gates, and integrate testing and observability into CI/CD pipelines. The role requires deep Kubernetes expertise, experience with large-scale Kubernetes platforms, and proficiency in Python, Go, Java, or Ruby.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in software, systems, platform, or reliability engineering.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise across architecture, operations, networking, storage, security, autoscaling, and multi-cluster environments.
• Experience building and operating large-scale Kubernetes platforms for cloud-native, mission-critical services.
• Experience integrating Kubernetes with CI/CD, GitOps, automated testing, and deployment validation.
• Experience designing cloud-native platforms for episodic environments, release qualifications, and automated validation.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate cloud-native engineering platforms for software validation, release qualification, and readiness.
• Design production-like release and test environments to improve release confidence and deployment readiness.
• Develop automated quality gates to assess release health, risk, and readiness.
• Integrate automated testing, observability, reliability signals, and deployment intelligence into CI/CD pipelines.
• Build reusable test frameworks, self-service environments, test data, mock services, and developer productivity tooling.
• Advance shift-left engineering through automated validation, continuous verification, and quality gates.

Skills

Kubernetes expertise

CI/CD integration

GitOps

Automation testing

Programming languages (Python/Go/Java)

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Cypress

REST Assured

PyTest

JUnit/TestNG

Job description

ServiceNow seeks a Sr. Staff Software Engineer – SRE, Release & Test Platforms to build and operate cloud-native engineering platforms for software validation, release qualification, and operational readiness.

You will design production-like release environments, develop automated quality gates, and integrate testing and observability into CI/CD pipelines. The role requires deep Kubernetes expertise, experience with large-scale Kubernetes platforms, and proficiency in Python, Go, Java, or Ruby.