Senior Manager, Data Platform Engineering Kubernetes Distributed Systems

Cloud Platform Kubernetes Hyperscalers & Distributed Systems

We are currently seeking a Sr. Manager Data Platform who will act as a player-coach engineering leader. You will lead a team of 610 engineers building and operating core platform services owning delivery people and technical direction for the teams domain.

What you get to do in this role:

• You will lead grow and develop a team of software engineers who design build and operate services within the cloud-native platform owning hiring onboarding coaching performance and career growth for every member of the team.
• You will own end-to-end delivery for your teams domain: setting priorities and roadmap with product and platform leadership making scope and sequencing trade-offs and ensuring commitments land predictably from design through production operation.
• You will be accountable for the reliability scalability and operability of the services your team runs establishing SLOs on-call practices and operational reviews and driving down incidents and toil across hyperscaler on-prem and sovereign environments.
• You will partner with principal and distinguished engineers peer managers and workload teams to align your teams work with the broader platform architecture standards and the needs of the teams that depend on the platform.
• You will stay close to the work as a player-coach reviewing designs and code weighing in on architectural decisions and occasionally building so that technical judgment not just process sets the bar for the team.
• You will build a healthy high-trust engineering culture: clear expectations honest feedback an inclusive environment and a team that raises the engineering bar for itself.
• You will communicate crisply with leadership and stakeholders about status risks and trade-offs and represent the team in planning capacity and escalation conversations.

Qualifications :

To be successful in this role you have:

• Experience leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into engineering and platform work whether adopting AI-powered tooling across a team automating operational workflows building agentic systems for fleet visibility and operations or reasoning about how AI changes the way a platform team is staffed and run.
• 10 years building production software including substantial hands-on experience operating distributed systems and running workloads on Kubernetes.
• 5 years managing software engineers with a track record of hiring developing and retaining strong engineers and building teams that deliver.
• A track record of leading teams to deliver complex business-critical systems or services end-to-end from design through production operation.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major hyperscaler (AWS Azure GCP) including its core compute networking and IAM primitives.
• Strong working knowledge of containers and Kubernetes CI/CD and GitOps-based delivery and infrastructure-as-code enough to review designs challenge assumptions and make sound technical trade-offs with your team.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills with the ability to explain technical risks and trade-offs to both engineers and senior leadership.

For positions in this location we offer a base pay of $181200 - $317100 plus equity (when applicable) variable/incentive compensation and benefits. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure. Please note that the base pay shown is a guideline and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications skill level competencies and work location. We also offer health plans including flexible spending accounts a 401(k) Plan with company match ESPP matching donations a flexible time away plan and family leave programs. Compensation is based on the geographic location in which the role is located and is subject to change based on work location.

Additional Information :

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Equal Opportunity Employer

ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation national origin age disability gender identity  veteran status or any other category protected by addition all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements. 

Accommodations

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Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time