Senior Staff Backend Software Engineer, ServiceNow

• 10+ years of software development experience
• Expert level with core Java development
• Knowledge and/or experience with relational databases: PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, MySQL
• Ability to context switch efficiently to troubleshoot difficult production issues e.g., memory leaks, concurrency issues, locking issues, network problems, intermittent failures etc. across the stack
• Good working experience of backend platform development
• Expert level understanding of best practices for object-oriented and modularized software. Emphasis on Java
• Ability to deliver complex projects on time
• Experience navigating and refactoring legacy code
• Having aptitude for learning new technologies quickly
• Good understanding of database technologies and internals

Desirable

• As a Senior Staff Data Platform Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to become a key member of the Data Scale team in the Platform Persistence group
• Our largest customers are always pushing the limits of the backend storage in terms of size of the data, speed of IO, as well as number of concurrent transactions
• Performance, reliability, and scalability is always at the core of our work
• Depending on the nature of the data, the storage systems include both relational databases and non-relational database such as columnar database
• You’ll work toward managing our explosive data growth and ensuring our systems remain available and highly responsive
• Experimenting with new technology to support Database layer to come up with solutions for scaling ServiceNow
• Developing platform technologies at scale
• Good understanding of infrastructure and DB topology
• Expertise in backend development primary in Java
• Relational Database Experience: Developing on, troubleshooting, and optimizing performance