Staff Software Engineer (GoLang, Kubernetes Operators, CRD)

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Hyderabad; Remote; INR 13,449,000 - 19,212,000; Full time

Job summary

ServiceNow seeks a Staff Software Engineer to design and deliver major Kubernetes platform components, including secrets management, workload identity, storage, and networking. You will write production-grade Go, build operators, and shape platform architecture for distributed workloads.

You will own operability, drive SLOs, and guide maintenance, upgrades, and migrations while mentoring junior engineers in a fast-paced, compliant environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building production software and distributed systems.
• Proven experience designing and operating Kubernetes platform infrastructure in production.
• Strong Go development skills with production Kubernetes controller or operator work.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Experience with CI/CD and GitOps-based delivery.
• Experience integrating AI into engineering/platform work.

Responsibilities

• Own design and delivery of significant components and core subsystems of our Kubernetes platform (e.g., secrets, credentials, workload identity, storage, networking).
• Turn loosely defined platform problems into design, plan, and shipped software with limited scaffolding.
• Contribute to architecture of distributed workloads and ensure runtime and isolation models are correct.
• Spend most time coding—operators/controllers, infrastructure automation, and platform services; participate in code reviews.
• Own operability: SLOs, failure modes, upgrade/migration paths, and on-call for your systems.
• Mentor engineers and align work with wider platform architecture; collaborate with senior staff.
• Support platform serving regulated markets with compliance considerations (FedRAMP).

Skills

Go programming

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

CI/CD

GitOps

Containers

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

AI in engineering

Mentoring

Tools

Kubernetes operators

Terraform

Crossplane

CI/CD tools

Job description

Staff Software Engineer (GoLang, Kubernetes Operators, CRD)

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

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.

To be successful in this role you have:

• You will own the design and delivery of significant components and core subsystems of our Kubernetes platform—for example secrets and certificate management, workload identity, storage, or cluster networking—from design through production operation.
• You will take a loosely defined platform problem and turn it into a design, a plan, and shipped software, with limited scaffolding from others.
• You will contribute to the architecture of distributed workloads running on the platform, working with the teams who depend on it to get the runtime and isolation model right.
• You will spend most of your time hands‑on in code—operators and controllers, infrastructure automation, and platform services—and in the reviews that keep their quality high.
• You will own the operability of what you build: SLOs, failure modes, upgrade and migration paths, and on‑call for your own systems.
• You will partner with senior staff and principal engineers to keep your work aligned with the wider platform architecture, and mentor engineers earlier in their careers.
• You will help us run a platform that serves regulated markets, where compliance constraints including FedRAMP shape design choices.

To be successful in this role you have:

• Built and operated Kubernetes platform infrastructure in production before, at meaningful scale—not just consumed it. You can point to specific subsystems you designed, shipped, and then supported through real incidents and upgrade cycles.
• 8+ years building production software, including solid experience operating distributed systems.
• Strong programming skills in Go, with production Kubernetes controller or operator work behind you.
• Hands‑on depth with at least one major hyperscaler (AWS, Azure, GCP)—its compute, networking, and IAM primitives, and where they leak into cluster design.
• A track record of owning complex components end to end, from ambiguous problem to production, whether or not you carried a lead title.
• Strong working knowledge of containers, CI/CD and GitOps-based delivery, and infrastructure‑as‑code.
• 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.

It also helps if you have:

• Experience with managed Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE) alongside self‑managed clusters.
• 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.

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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