Description

Software Engineer - Platform Development (All Levels)

ServiceNow is changing the way people work. With a service-orientation toward the activities, tasks and processes that make up day-to-day work life, we help the modern enterprise operate faster and be more scalable than ever before.

We’re disruptive. We work hard but try not to take ourselves too seriously. We are highly adaptable and constantly evolving. We are passionate about our product, and we live for our customers. We have high expectations and a career at ServiceNow means challenging yourself to always be better.

We employ the brightest and most forward-thinking cloud platform developers on the planet. We have offices in San Diego, San Francisco and Santa Clara and work as a distributed team.

Come join the Cloud Platform Development team and make your mark on the cloud platform for enterprise applications!

What you get to do in this role:

You will have the opportunity to become a key member of the Cloud Platform Development group. Responsibilities include new feature development and bug fixes related to improving the reliability and scalability of our architecture. Examples of past and previous projects include implementing support for multiple databases, adding support for NoSQL as an alternative document store integrated into the platform, automated error detection and self-healing, instrumentation of the ServiceNow platform to provide new insight into performance problems.

In order to be successful in this role, we need someone who has:

• We’re looking for candidates with a range of experience
• Firm understanding of best practices for object-oriented and modularized software.
• Strong understanding of web technologies: HTML, JavaScript, HTTP and backend programming of web applications
• Demonstrated success completing complex projects, on time
• Demonstrated aptitude for learning new technologies quickly
• Actively participate in understanding customer problems, determining product goals, and defining technical requirements

Desired Skills

• Experience developing web applications at scale
• Experience with troubleshooting difficult production issues e.g. memory leaks, network problems, intermittent failures etc. across the stack
• Experience working in a customer focused environment
• Relational Database Experience: Developing on, troubleshooting and optimizing performance of: Oracle, MySQL MS SQLServer
• Experience developing a platform

We provide competitive compensation, generous benefits and a professional atmosphere. This is a very collaborative and inclusive work environment where individuals strong on aptitude and attitude will have an opportunity to grow their professional careers through working with some of the most advanced technology and talented developers in the business.