Staff Software Engineer - Infra Automation

ServiceNow • Kirkland, WA

84d • $163,600 - $286,300

About The Position

Platform Infrastructure Automation builds software that brings ServiceNow instances to life and manages their journey on our Clouds. We write software that works across tens of data centers and tens of thousands of servers around the world. Reliability and Performance are utmost important in everything we do. We use a combination of Java, JavaScript and ServiceNow platform to achieve this. We continue to evolve our platform to use newer methodologies. We are a group of people that enjoy working with infrastructure and make it work for our customers. We work in a very collaborative environment with distributed teams that empowers and enables you to succeed in your role. Your initiative (start) and drive (propel) will be unstoppable in our team.

Requirements

• Ability to manage projects with material technical risk at a team level.
• Good foundation in distributed systems with proven experience designing and architecting systems.
• Experience building products and framework.
• Excellent experience in object-oriented design and backend programming (Java, JavaScript).
• Deep understanding of database technologies.
• Experience with data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, design patterns, and performance/scale considerations.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline.
• Analytical and design skills.
• Experience with agile development tools and practices.
• Prior experience in solving problems at systems level, ideally in a private or public Cloud environment.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving.
• Experience in using AI Productivity tools such as Windsurf, Cursor, etc.
• Experience developing in Golang (in addition to primary language expertise).
• Hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms.
• Familiarity with modern cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tools.

Responsibilities

• Take a higher order problem and define it clearly and design a system to solve it.
• Partner with Product Owners, stakeholders, and engineers in building the solution.
• Inspire the engineers with your hands on approach and innovative solutions to solve the problem.
• Build high-quality, clean, scalable, and reusable code by enforcing best practices around software engineering architecture and processes (Code Reviews, Unit testing, etc.).
• Implement software that is simple to use to allow customers to extend and customize the functionality to meet their specific needs.
• Identify opportunities to simplify existing systems and evolve them to become better.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of new products and features while also enhancing the existing product suite.
• Help us build scalable and reliable cloud computing solutions to support the rapid growth of our SaaS products.
• Solve tough technical challenges in a high energy, startup like environment with experienced industry leaders and with a highly collaborative team.
• Design, implement, test, and deploy scalable Cloud Computing solutions as part of the Cloud development team.

Benefits

• Base pay of $163,600 - $286,300, plus equity (when applicable), variable/incentive compensation and benefits.
• Health plans, including flexible spending accounts.
• 401(k) Plan with company match.
• ESPP, matching donations.
• Flexible time away plan and family leave programs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services