ServiceNow
Senior Staff Software Engineer – SRE, Release & Test Platforms
Santa Clara, CALIFORNIA, United States · Staff+ · Contract
Sponsorship not specified$191k-$334kDetected 7 hours ago
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About the role
- It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis.
- To be successful in this role you have: - Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving.
Responsibilities
- Build and operate cloud-native engineering platforms for software validation, release qualification, and operational readiness.
- Design production-like release and test environments that improve release confidence and deployment readiness.
- Build reusable test frameworks, self-service environments, test data, mock services, and developer productivity tooling.
- Lead Kubernetes-based platform evolution for scalable test infrastructure, release automation, and developer self-service.
- Partner with engineering teams on design reviews, architecture standards, and automation-first reliability practices.
- Experience building and operating large-scale Kubernetes platforms for cloud-native, mission-critical services.
- Proven ability to lead engineering excellence across developer productivity, platform engineering, release confidence, and modernization.
- Experience building enterprise-scale test automation frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, REST Assured, PyTest, JUnit/TestNG, or equivalent technologies.
- Experience building engineering platforms that support developer self-service and release engineering.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in software, systems, platform, or reliability engineering with a Bachelor's degree
- or 8 years and a Master's degree
- or a PhD with 5 years experience
- Experience with progressive delivery, including canary releases, feature flags, automated rollback, and deployment verification.
- Experience with chaos engineering, resilience validation, disaster recovery, and reliability assessments.
- To be successful in this role you have:.
- Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving.
Nice to have
- Expertise in observability and monitoring applications, services, and networks at scale.
- Experience with DevOps automation, CI/CD pipelines, and agile methodologies, including GitLab CI/CD or similar tools.
- Experience with test orchestration, test impact analysis, flaky test detection, parallel execution, and intelligent regression testing.
- Experience with service virtualization, contract testing, synthetic testing, and test data management.
- Experience with infrastructure configuration management tools such as Ansible.
- Expertise with Kubernetes ecosystem technologies such as Helm, Argo CD, Argo Workflows, Kustomize, Istio/Linkerd, Gateway API/Ingress, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and container runtimes.
- Experience implementing GitOps using Argo CD, Flux, or similar technologies.
- Experience operating Kubernetes across AWS (EKS), Azure (AKS), and Google Cloud (GKE).
Skills
- She cried tears of joy.
- Today, ServiceNow is the AI control tower for business reinvention.
- Join us to put AI to work for people.
Compensation
- $191k-$334k
Benefits
- Develop automated quality gates to assess release health, operational risk, and production readiness.
Equal opportunity
- ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or any other category protected by law.
- In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements.
- Accommodations
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- Export Control Regulations
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