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# Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure - Moveworks

- **Company:** ServiceNow
- **Location:** Mountain View, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $143,200.0 - $243,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), A/B Testing, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Configuration Management, Data Stores, Distributed Systems, Elasticsearch, Python (Programming Language), Open Source Technology, Data Logging, Istio, Rate Limiting, Information Technology, Low Latency, Apache Kafka, Docker, Servicenow, Golang, Microservices
- **Published:** September 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/ServiceNow/744000149933669-senior-software-engineer-core-infrastructure-moveworks

## About the Role

* 5+ years of experience designing, building, shipping, and maintaining products or platforms
 * Experience designing, building, shipping, and maintaining backend distributed systems
 * Familiarity with Python/Golang/Java/C++
 * Experience with containers/Docker, and with cloud infrastructure like AWS/GCP/Azure
 * Experience working with and operating open source technologies like Kafka, Elasticsearch or Opensearch, Istio, etc.
 * Desire to work at a startup pace in a small company with a high degree of ownership
 * Experience solving for performance, optimization, scalability, latency, and monitoring
 * Strong motivation, gumption, and an appetite for continuous, incremental changes and completing challenging projects fast
 * BS+ in computer science or a related field
 * High level of curiosity about engineering outside of your immediate discipline and an incessant desire to learn

## Description

* Closely work with machine learning, search, product, data, and frontend teams, understand their infrastructure needs, influence infrastructure roadmap, and lead as well as execute on various projects
 * Architect and build out the core infrastructure and foundational functionalities such as distributed key value store, schema-less data store, authentication and authorization, event streaming, distributed configuration management and hot reloading, rate limiting and circuit breaking, system for feature flags and A/B testing, traffic capture and replay, etc.
 * Improve observability and reliability of Moveworks systems by building and enhancing distributed logging, tracing, monitoring, and alerting infrastructure
 * Define methodologies and metrics to measure performance of microservices and product functionalities, identify and fix bottlenecks, as well as improve overall performance and scalability of Moveworks applications
 * Regularly deliver deadline sensitive work that is interdependent with other engineering teams, We approach our distributed world of work with flexibility and trust. Work personas (flexible, remote, or required in office) are categories that are assigned to ServiceNow employees depending on the nature of their work and their assigned work location. Learn more here. To determine eligibility for a work persona, ServiceNow may confirm the distance between your primary residence and the closest ServiceNow office using a third-party service.


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