Senior Staff Software Engineer - Backend (Persistence)

Job Description

Team:

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.

What you’ll do and need to know:

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.

To be successful: 

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.

Nice to have:

Experience with Unix shell.

Experience working with JDBC drivers.

Experience working in a DevOps environment.

Experience working in a customer focused environment.

Experience with Ruby or Go.