Distinguished Engineer, Multi-Cloud Kubernetes Control Plane

ServiceNow; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 254,500 - 445,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

401(k) with company match

ESPP

Matching donations

Flexible time away

Family leave programs

Job summary

ServiceNow is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to set the technical direction for the cloud-native platform across multiple engineering teams. You will own the hardest problems in the platform domain, including multi-cloud topology, control-plane design, and workload isolation.

You will mentor engineers, influence architecture without authority, and collaborate with senior leaders to drive best practices across the platform ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with Kubernetes at scale and multi-cluster, multi-region deployments.
• Hands-on leadership across engineering teams driving architecture and direction.
• Experience with hyperscalers (AWS/Azure/GCP) and their managed Kubernetes offerings.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for the cloud-native platform across teams and orgs.
• Own complex platform problems: multi-cloud topology, control-plane design, workload isolation.

Skills

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Go programming

Cloud platforms

Architecture leadership

GitOps

Container networking

Service mesh

Hyperscalers

Tools

Crossplane

EKS

AKS

GKE

Job description

ServiceNow is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to set the technical direction for the cloud-native platform across multiple engineering teams. You will own the hardest problems in the platform domain, including multi-cloud topology, control-plane design, and workload isolation.

You will mentor engineers, influence architecture without authority, and collaborate with senior leaders to drive best practices across the platform ecosystem.