Associate Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure - Moveworks

ServiceNow, Inc.

Mountain View (CA)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

ServiceNow, Inc. seeks a backend infrastructure engineer in Mountain View to design, build, and operate distributed systems. You will architect core infrastructure including KV stores, auth, event streaming, and configuration, while improving observability and performance across services.

You will collaborate with ML, data, and frontend teams, work with Python, Golang, Java, C++, and run in containers on AWS/GCP/Azure, using Kafka, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, and Istio.

Qualifications

  • Experience designing, building, shipping, and maintaining backend distributed systems.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and build core infrastructure and foundational functionality (distributed KV store, schema-less store, auth, event streaming).
  • Improve observability, reliability, and monitoring of services.
  • Define metrics and optimize performance, latency, and scalability of microservices.
  • Deliver deadline-driven work in collaboration with other engineering teams.

Skills

Distributed systems
Backend development
Python
Golang
Java
C++
Docker
Cloud platforms
AWS
GCP
Azure
Kafka
Elasticsearch/OpenSearch
Istio
Performance tuning

Education

BS+ in computer science or related field

Tools

Docker
Kubernetes
AWS/GCP/Azure
Kafka
Elasticsearch/OpenSearch
Istio

Job description

It all started in sunny San Diego, California in 2004 when a visionary engineer, Fred Luddy, saw the potential to transform how we work. Fast forward to today — ServiceNow stands as a global market leader, bringing innovative AI-enhanced technology to over 8,100 customers, including 85% of the Fortune 500®. Our intelligent cloud-based platform seamlessly connects people, systems, and processes to empower organizations to find smarter, faster, and better ways to work. But this is just the beginning of our journey. Join us as we pursue our purpose to make the world work better for everyone.

  • Closely work with machine learning, search, product, data, and frontend teams, understand their infrastructure needs, influence infrastructure roadmap, and lead as well as execute on various projects
  • Architect and build out the core infrastructure and foundational functionalities such as distributed key value store, schema-less data store, authentication and authorization, event streaming, distributed configuration management and hot reloading, rate limiting and circuit breaking, system for feature flags and A/B testing, traffic capture and replay, etc.
  • Improve observability and reliability of Moveworks systems by building and enhancing distributed logging, tracing, monitoring, and alerting infrastructure
  • Define methodologies and metrics to measure performance of microservices and product functionalities, identify and fix bottlenecks, as well as improve overall performance and scalability of Moveworks applications
  • Regularly deliver deadline sensitive work that is interdependent with other engineering teams
  • Experience designing, building, shipping, and maintaining backend distributed systems
  • Familiarity with Python/Golang/Java/C++ Experience with containers/Docker, and with cloud infrastructure like AWS/GCP/Azure
  • Experience working with and operating open source technologies like Kafka, Elasticsearch or Opensearch, Istio, etc.
  • Desire to work at a startup pace in a small company with a high degree of ownership
  • Experience solving for performance, optimization, scalability, latency, and monitoring
  • Strong motivation, gumption, and an appetite for continuous, incremental changes and completing challenging projects fast
  • BS+ in computer science or a related field
  • High level of curiosity about engineering outside of your immediate discipline and an incessant desire to learn
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://www.servicenow.com/content/dam/servicenow-assets/public/en-us/doc-type/other-document/careers/new-world-of-work-personas.pdf) . 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, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, 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

We strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, or are unable to use this online application and need an alternative method to apply, please contact globaltalentss@servicenow.com for assistance.

Export Control Regulations

For positions requiring access to controlled technology subject to export control regulations, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR), ServiceNow may be required to obtain export control approval from government authorities for certain individuals. All employment is contingent upon ServiceNow obtaining any export license or other approval that may be required by relevant export control authorities.

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