Associate Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure
ServiceNow
Posted 13 Nov 2026, 17:06 ET
This job at a glance
- Who can apply
- New grads and up to 2 years
- Must know
- Product managementCircuit designStatisticsMicroservicesSystem designPython
- Work
- On-site in Mountain View
- Pay
- Not stated by the employer.
- Skill demand
- Product management17%Circuit design8%Statistics8%Microservices3%of 60 similar entry-level jobs posted in the US this week
- Listed
- Nov 13, 2026 · still open
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About the Role
This role involves working closely with various teams, understanding their infrastructure needs, influencing the infrastructure roadmap, and leading and executing projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and build core infrastructure and foundational functionalities including:
- 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
- Improve observability and reliability 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.
- Improve overall performance and scalability of applications.
- Regularly deliver deadline-sensitive work that is interdependent with other engineering teams.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Experience designing, building, shipping, and maintaining backend distributed systems.
- Familiarity with Python, Golang, Java, or C++.
- Experience with **containers/Docker.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience working with and operating open-source technologies like Kafka, Elasticsearch or Opensearch, Istio.
- Desire to work at a startup pace 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.
- High level of curiosity about engineering outside of your immediate discipline and an incessant desire to learn.
Qualifications
- BS+ in computer science or a related field.