Data Platform Engineer: Kubernetes & AI

ServiceNow; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 262,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

401(k) plan with company match

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Family leave programs

Job summary

ServiceNow is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Data Platform Engineering organization. You will own well‑scoped components and drive projects end‑to‑end, collaborating with senior and principal engineers to ensure alignment with platform architecture and standards.

You will spend most of your time hands‑on building operators, controllers, automation, and platform services that other teams depend on.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience with a Bachelor's degree; OR 5+ years with a Master's degree; OR 3+ years with a PhD; OR equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of hands‑on experience building, deploying and operating workloads on Kubernetes.
• Working experience with at least one major hyperscaler (AWS, Azure, GCP), including its core compute, networking, and IAM primitives.
• Solid working knowledge of containers, CI/CD and GitOps‑based delivery, and infrastructure‑as‑code.
• Strong programming skills in Go (or another systems language with a willingness to work primarily in Go).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate components and services within the cloud-native platform from design to production.
• Lead well‑scoped projects within your team, turning requirements into solid technical designs and delivering them.
• Collaborate with senior, staff, and principal engineers to align work with architecture and standards.
• Contribute to reliability, scalability, and operability — writing tests, instrumentation, runbooks, and on‑call participation.
• Spend most of your time hands‑on building operators, controllers, automation, and platform services.
• Help onboard and mentor junior engineers through code review and design feedback.

Skills

Go

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Containers

GitOps

Cloud providers

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

Terraform

Git

Job description

ServiceNow is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Data Platform Engineering organization. You will own well‑scoped components and drive projects end‑to‑end, collaborating with senior and principal engineers to ensure alignment with platform architecture and standards.

You will spend most of your time hands‑on building operators, controllers, automation, and platform services that other teams depend on.