Sr Staff Software Engineer - Go, Kubernetes platform Engineering

ServiceNow; Hyderabad; Remote; INR 4,000,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

ServiceNow Hyderabad is seeking a senior engineer to lead the design and delivery of cloud-native components and services. You will act as a technical lead for major features, translate ambiguous problems into scalable designs, and align with platform architecture and engineering standards.

You will mentor engineers while maintaining a hands-on presence across the lifecycle, including Kubernetes operators, controllers, and platform automation. Strong Go skills and cloud experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience integrating AI into engineering and platform work.
• 14+ years designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience building Kubernetes platform infrastructure at scale.
• Hands-on developing Kubernetes Operators, Admission Controllers, or similar.
• Experience operating both managed and self-managed Kubernetes clusters.
• Experience with cloud-native databases or stateful services on Kubernetes.
• Strong Go programming skills and CRD/Controller development.
• Deep Kubernetes architecture knowledge.
• Experience with public clouds (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Experience with microservices and distributed architectures.
• Experience end-to-end ownership of complex initiatives.
• Hands-on with containers, CI/CD, GitOps, and IaC.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of complex cloud-native components and services.
• Act as technical lead for major features and initiatives.
• Align with broader architecture and engineering standards.
• Identify and resolve technical risks focusing on reliability and scalability.
• Maintain hands-on development across lifecycle including Kubernetes operators and platform services.
• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers through code and design reviews.

Skills

AI integration

Large-scale systems

Kubernetes platform

Kubernetes Operators

EKS/AKS/GKE

Go programming

CI/CD & GitOps

Terraform / IaC

Cloud architecture

Microservices design

Observability / SRE

Tools

Kubebuilder

Operator Framework

CRDs

Terraform

Crossplane

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

• Full-time
• Employee Type: Regular
• Region: APAC - Asia Pacific
• Work Persona: Flexible or Remote

Company 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.

Job Description

What you get to do in this role:

Lead the design and delivery of complex components and services within the cloud-native platform, owning them from design through production operation.

Act as the technical lead for major features and initiatives within the team, translating ambiguous problems into clear, scalable, and executable designs.

Partner with Principal and Distinguished Engineers to ensure alignment with broader platform architecture, engineering standards, and long-term technical strategy.

Identify technical risks early and drive them to resolution, with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, operability, and engineering excellence.

Maintain a strong hands-on presence across the development lifecycle, including designing, coding, and reviewing core systems such as Kubernetes operators, controllers, infrastructure automation, and platform services.

Mentor mid-level and junior engineers while raising the engineering bar through code reviews, design reviews, technical guidance, and collaborative problem-solving.

Qualifications

• Experience leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into engineering and platform work—AI-powered tooling, automated operational workflows, agentic systems for fleet visibility and operations, or reasoning about AI’s impact on how infrastructure is built and run.
• 14+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems and cloud-native platforms in production environments.
• Demonstrated experience building and operating Kubernetes platform infrastructure at scale, with ownership of platform capabilities through deployment, upgrades, and production operations.
• Hands-ondeveloping Kubernetes Operators, Admission Controllers, or other platform extensions using Kubebuilder, Operator Framework, or similar technologies.
• Experience operating both managed Kubernetes services (EKS, AKS, GKE) and self-managed Kubernetes environments.
• Experience supporting cloud-native database platforms, large-scale data infrastructure, or stateful services on Kubernetes.
• Strong software engineering expertise in Go, with hands-on experience developing Kubernetes Operators, Controllers, Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs), and platform automation capabilities.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture, including orchestration, scheduling, security, storage, networking, and workload management.
• Proven experience operating stateful and distributed workloads on Kubernetes, including databases, data services, or other mission-critical platform components.
• Extensive experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including compute, networking, security, and identity management services.
• Strong background designing and building microservices, event-driven systems, and distributed application architectures.
• Experience owning complex technical initiatives end-to-end, from architecture and design through implementation, deployment, and operational support.
• Hands-on experience with containers, CI/CD, GitOps practices, and Infrastructure-as-Code using tools such as Terraform, Crossplane, or equivalent technologies.
• Experience implementing observability and reliability best practices, including metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, alerting, and service-level objectives.
• Proven ability to drive technical strategy through architectural design reviews, technical proposals, and cross-functional collaboration.

Good to have:

• Experience with container networking (CNI) and/or service mesh.
• Experience with mTLS, workload identity, and secrets management at fleet scale.
• Experience with observability—metrics, tracing, and SLOs.
• Experience with Terraform, Crossplane, or similar declarative infrastructure tooling.
• Experience designing or tuning distributed data or compute workloads on Kubernetes.

Additional Information

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 . 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.

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