Company Description
It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could do that for everyone—freeing people from busywork so they could focus on meaningful work. Today, ServiceNow is the AI control tower for business reinvention. Our ServiceNow AI platform brings together any AI, any data, and any workflow— helping 85% of the Fortune 500® work smarter, faster, and better. We're building an AI-native culture where technology and talent are unstoppable together. And we're just getting started.
Join us to put AI to work for people.
Job Description
About the role
We are hiring a staff software engineer (IC4) for the Telemetry Data Platform team, which carries product usage telemetry for the entire ServiceNow platform on a stack built with Kubernetes, Kafka, and ClickHouse. We are distributed across Israel, India, and the Americas.
This is a full stack role with its center of gravity firmly on the infrastructure side — expect roughly two-thirds of your time on telemetry infrastructure, data pipelines, Kubernetes and DevOps work, and the rest on the services and product surfaces on top. You will be equally comfortable designing a distributed system and owning it in production. If you like following a system from the event that fires to the chart that renders — and you want the pager for it — you will feel at home.
You will lead design and delivery of complex, multi-service features, own technical decisions within a domain, and are fully self-directed — escalating only genuine ambiguities and driving decisions to closure. Of the ten critical skills at this level, incident response management is the only one set at Expert; the rest are Experienced.
What you’ll do
Telemetry infrastructure and data pipelines
Design, build, and own backend services for distributed data streaming and processing that handle high-volume, high-cardinality event da