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Senior Software Engineer – Compute Engineering

ServiceNow · Santa Clara, CALIFORNIA · On-site

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About ServiceNow

It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. Backed by Greylock and Sequoia.

About the role

Join the Compute Engineering organization, which builds the scheduling, capacity, and performance systems that run our platform across private and public cloud. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or Java, with experience in related languages
  • Experience building and maintaining Linux-based systems through infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools, such as Terraform and Ansible
  • Comfortable with virtualization and cloud infrastructure across private and public clouds, such as Azure, AWS, GCP
  • Working understanding of IP networking, block and file storage, and load balancers
  • Working understanding of internet protocols such as DNS, NTP, and HTTP
  • Works independently across interconnected systems and investigates root causes without waiting for direction
More about this role

We are hiring across multiple engineering levels. Final level alignment is determined by experience, technical expertise, demonstrated impact, and interview performance.

Join the Compute Engineering organization, which builds the scheduling, capacity, and performance systems that run our platform across private and public cloud.

  • Write and maintain software-defined, declarative infrastructure for compute at scale, with build systems, services, and automation that are specified, documented, and testable.
  • Build and improve components of the compute scheduler and resource-management systems, including placement, prioritization, and preemption.
  • Build tools for capacity data collection, forecasting, and reporting across private and public cloud.
  • Write performance and load tests, and help detect regressions in scheduling latency and throughput.
  • Research and adopt open-source and commercial tools and methods that improve compute efficiency and reliability.
  • Collaborate with networking, orchestration, and SRE teams on integration and design.
  • Take part in design reviews and on-call rotations, and contribute to post-incident improvements.
  • Use AI tools to speed up development...

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