Staff Site Reliability Engineer

ServiceNow, Inc.; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holidays

Well-being days

Parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Mentoring program

Job summary

ServiceNow, Inc. is seeking an experienced engineer to contribute to reliability, scalability, and automation across our infrastructure.

You will use Linux, scripting languages, and automation to prevent repeatable issues and improve system design. In this role you will lead internal stakeholder collaboration, implement telemetry with OpenTelemetry, manage SLAs, and ensure services meet performance goals at scale.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant experience.
• Excellent Knowledge of Linux systems.
• Proficiency in Python/Go/Java/Ruby.
• Experience with large-scale systems focusing on automation, observability, availability and performance.
• Experience with MySQL and PostgreSQL database administration, troubleshooting and performance tuning.
• Develop and maintain telemetry/monitoring using OpenTelemetry.
• Proven experience in defining and managing SLAs.
• Collaborate with development teams to align new services with standards.

Responsibilities

• Use knowledge of software development, systems engineering, and networking to proactively prevent repeatable issues.
• Lead internal stakeholders and partner teams to improve reliability, scalability and performance of infrastructure through improved system design.
• Champion automation and scale-focused culture to deliver repeatable, scalable responses to system issues.

Skills

Linux

Python

Go

Java

Ruby

Automation

Observability

MySQL

PostgreSQL

OpenTelemetry

SLA management

Team collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

GitLab CI/CD

Ansible

Job description

It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could do that for everyone—freeing people from busywork so they could focus on meaningful work. Today, ServiceNow is the AI control tower for business reinvention. Our ServiceNow AI platform brings together any AI, any data, and any workflow— helping 85% of the Fortune 500® work smarter, faster, and better. We're building an AI-native culture where technology and talent are unstoppable together. And we're just getting started.

Join us to put AI to work for people.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is passionate about driving innovation, enhancing service reliability, and making a tangible impact on the organization’s success.

What do you do in this role?

• Use your knowledge and experience in software development, systems engineering, and networking to proactively prevent repeatable issues.
• Lead internal stakeholders and partner teams to improve the reliability, scalability and performance of the infrastructure through improved system design.
• Champion and contribute to a culture of intolerance to manual activity, which results in an automation environment delivering repeatable and scalable response to system issues.

To be successful in this role you have:

• Experience in leveraging or critical thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI's potential impact on the function or industry.
• 6+ years of relevant experience
• Excellent Knowledge of Linux systems.
• Comfortable designing, authoring, testing, and debugging code in a team setting in one of the following languages such as Python, Go, Java, or Ruby.
• Experience working with systems at scale - supporting critical services with focus on automation, observability, availability, and performance.
• Experience with MySQL and PostgreSQL database administration, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Develop and maintain telemetry and monitoring solutions using OpenTelemetry standards to gain deep insights into system behaviour, proactively address issues, optimise performance, and improve efficiency through comprehensive data collection, analysis, and visualisation.
• Proven experience in defining and managing SLAs.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure new services align with architectural standards and best practices.

Good to have:

• Expertise in Observability and Monitoring of applications, services, and networks at scale.
• Experience with DevOps automation, CI/CD pipeline and agile methodologies such as Gitlab CI-CD.
• Experience writing test specifications and understand the fundamentals of test automation.
• Experience working with Cloud technologies such as Azure and AWS.
• Experience in configuration management of infrastructure using Ansible.
• Experience with Kubernetes to orchestrate the deployment, scaling, and management of containers.
• Hands‑on experience with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS), including designing, implementing, and maintaining reliable and scalable systems.

We also have pluses! They are not a 'must', but please highlight them on your resume if you have any of these: experience with cloud engineering, knowledge of core AI/ML techniques and algorithms, familiar with implementing Chaos engineering principles, experience in incident response process, post‑mortem practices, or service best practice standards and web applications engineering.

What you can expect from us:

At ServiceNow, we make work better for everyone – including our own employees. We know that your best work happens when you live your best life and share your unique talents, so we do everything we can to make that possible for our employees. Win as a Team is part of our culture, and we aspire to wow our customers. We stay hungry and humble and focus on creating belonging. Sustainability, inclusivity, and diversity are key focus areas within our business framework so that we have transparency, equity, and accountability to deliver meaningful, measurable change. With our vision and dedication for a better future already underway. Join us on this journey!

In addition to a competitive salary, supportive teams, and a real opportunity to progress in your career with a forward‑thinking organisation, we provide resources to help you and your loved ones be well. From benefits plans and programs, to mental health resources that offer coaching and 24/7 support, to family support resources and parental leave programs – we want to help you take care of yourself and your loved ones. Below is a glimpse into even more of our offerings or click here for a full list (https://www.servicenow.com/content/dam/servicenow-assets/public/en-us/doc-type/other-document/people-pact-one.pdf).

• Along with holidays, we have company‑wide designated global well‑being days where everyone is off and can spend time doing what matters most.
• Good working culture to support the balance you need in both work and life.
• Parental leave programs.
• Childcare and caregiving benefits.
• A learning experience platform built using our own technology, to support your learning and development goals as well as a tuition reimbursement program.
• A global, cross‑functional mentoring program.
• We also have team‑building activities, various employee belonging groups, volunteering, and community outreach programs.

Work Personas

We approach our distributed world of work with flexibility and trust. Work personas (flexible, remote, or required in office) are categories that are assigned to ServiceNow employees depending on the nature of their work and their assigned work location. Learn more here (https://careers.servicenow.com/life-at-servicenow#workpersonas). To determine eligibility for a work persona, ServiceNow may confirm the distance between your primary residence and the closest ServiceNow office using a third‑party service.

Equal Opportunity Employer

ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements.

Accommodations

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