Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform — Kubernetes (Hybrid)

Servicenow

San Diego (CA)

Hybrid

USD 150,000 - 262,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

401(k) Plan with company match

ESPP

Flexible time away & family leave

Job summary

ServiceNow is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Data Platform. This hybrid role involves designing and delivering cloud-native platform features, leading projects, and collaborating with senior engineers to ensure architectural alignment.

You’ll spend time on hands-on development, building operators, automation, and platform services used by other teams. Your background includes 8+ years of software development with a relevant degree, strong Go skills, Kubernetes hands-on experience, and

Qualifications

8+ years of software development experience with a Bachelor's degree, or 5+ with a Master's, or 3+ with a PhD, or equivalent.
5+ years of hands-on experience building, deploying and operating workloads on Kubernetes.
Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
Strong knowledge of containers, CI/CD, GitOps, and infrastructure-as-code.
Proficient in Go or a systems language with willingness to work in Go.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate components and services within our cloud-native platform.
Lead well-scoped projects from requirements to production.
Collaborate with senior engineers to align with platform architecture and standards.
Contribute to reliability, scalability, and operability with tests and runbooks.