Staff Software Engineer - Observability Federal

The Observability team is responsible for providing frameworks, tools, and APIs to allow all ServiceNow engineers and developers to better understand the behavior of features, services, and infrastructure they own and maintain. We teach product, infrastructure, and systems teams how to appropriately monitor features and services they own, provides visualization for monitoring distributed systems, reduces operational overhead by providing actionable insights, and helps deliver unmatched availability to our customers.

Please Note:  This position will include supporting our US Federal customers.

“This position requires passing a ServiceNow background screening, USFedPASS (US Federal Personnel Authorization Screening Standards). This includes a credit check, criminal/misdemeanor check and taking a drug test. Any employment is contingent upon passing the screening.  Due to Federal requirements, only US citizens, US naturalized citizens or US Permanent Residents, holding a green card, will be considered.

What you get to do in this role:

• Deploy and scale our Observability infrastructure
• Define best practices around making our systems and services measurable and work with our various teams to get those best practices applied
• Collaborate with our Engineering teams to ensure our infrastructure is emitting the right metrics
• Collect, aggregate and visualize the collected metrics to provide actionable insight
• Work with management to procure and deploy commercial or open-source tools focused on network & system availability, performance and capacity monitoring, alarming and management
• Identify, define and develop common interfaces (APIs) which could be used for querying databases , craft metrics, or analyze problems
• Participate in rotation on-call schedule with other team members for the systems developed.

The candidate should have a solid foundation in networking monitoring and management technologies. A proven track record and experience in designing, developing, testing, and running network monitoring solutions is a must. 

To be successful in this role you have:

• 6+ years of Observability, Site Reliability, and tool development experience
• Strong coding abilities with Python, Go with a focus on API and integrations
• Proven experience with Software Development Lifecycles including infrastructure as code, configuration management, CI/CD technology processes and source code repositories
• Must have 4 yrs Experience building observability & Large Scale monitoring solutions (e.g. InfluxDB, Prometheus, Thanos, Telegraph, Grafana)
• Good foundation in network monitoring technologies. This can include SNMP, Netflow, IPFIX
• Knowledge of network vendor technologies and protocols is a plus (Cisco, Juniper, F5, Paloalto, MPLS, BGP, OSPF)
• Working knowledge of Java, HTML, or Unix scripting would be a plus
• Experience with Openconfig, OpenTelemetry, Kafka, ELK stack, Ansible would be a plus
• Experience in APM, NPM, end user monitoring would be a plus
• Familiarity with virtualization and cloud infrastructure technologies is a plus
• Excellent analytical, strategic planning, written and oral communication skills
• Good team player, attention to detail and ability to work well with others
• Master or Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field.

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