ServiceNow provides cloud-based services that automate enterprise information technology operations. As an employer, ServiceNow offers a challenging, collaborat
Principal Engineer - Data Platform
Location
Northern America
Posted
5 days ago
Salary
$221.2K - $387.1K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Principal Engineer - Data Platform
ServiceNow
Role Description Join the Global Cloud Services organization's FinOps Tools team, which is building ServiceNow's next-generation analytics and financial governance platform. As the Distinguished Engineer for the FinOps Engineering Platform, you will set and own the technical vision and architecture for the entire platform. - Own the end-to-end technical architecture of the FinOps Engineering Platform. - Lead the design and development of the GCS Data Warehouse and the program to migrate ServiceNow's Global Cloud Services data platform off Cloudera onto the modern lakehouse. - Set the technical vision and multi-year roadmap for the platform. - Make the highest-leverage, hardest-to-reverse technical decisions. - Establish platform-wide engineering standards for reliability, determinism, observability, security, and production readiness. - Drive innovation across the platform, including the responsible use of AI/ML tooling. - Foster a culture of engineering craftsmanship, knowledge-sharing, and thoughtful quality practices. - Move fast while protecting the architectural integrity that lets it scale. Qualifications - Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes. - 15+ years of experience in software or data engineering. - Proven track record as the lead architect or top technical authority for a platform. - Proven experience leading a large data platform migration or modernization. - Deep expertise across the modern data stack and in distributed-systems and cloud-native architecture. - Strong systems and backend engineering depth. - Hands-on experience with cloud cost management and FinOps. - Demonstrated ability to operate at high velocity in greenfield environments. - Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and software quality principles. - Full professional proficiency in English. Requirements - Platform architecture: Designing and owning the architecture of large, multi-component platforms. - Modern data stack & lakehouse: Trino/Presto, dbt, Apache Iceberg, Lightdash. - Platform migration & modernization: Migrating off legacy Hadoop/Cloudera onto a modern lakehouse. - Forecasting & simulation: Deterministic, reproducible computation, multi-period simulation. - Cloud capacity & reservations: Hyperscaler capacity procurement. - Multi-cloud & infrastructure: Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD. - Reliability & observability: SLI/SLO/error-budget design. - Data contracts & quality: Fail-loud ingestion and correctness invariants. - API & integration design: RESTful services and webhook/event integrations. Benefits - Base pay of $221,200 - $387,100, plus equity and variable/incentive compensation. - Health plans, including flexible spending accounts. - 401(k) Plan with company match. - ESPP and matching donations. - Flexible time away plan and family leave programs.
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