Position Location:
This is a Flexible (Hybrid) position.  Flexible positions require 2 days per week in a ServiceNow office.  We have offices in several locations, including Santa Clara, CA, San Diego, CA, and Kirkland, WACloud Platform — Kubernetes, Hyperscalers & Distributed SystemsWe are currently seeking a Distinguished Engineer.  In this role, you will have org-wide technical authority, giving you the ability to set technical direction across multiple engineering organizations.  You will own the hardest, most ambiguous problems in the platform domain.
What you get to do in this role:You will set the technical direction for our cloud-native platform across multiple engineering teams and organizations, defining the architecture and standards for how Kubernetes, distributed systems, and hyperscaler infrastructure are built and operated at scale.You will own the hardest, most ambiguous technical problems in the platform domain — multi-cloud topology, control-plane design, workload isolation, identity and trust fabric, and reliability at the scale of hundreds of clusters and dozens of product workloads.You will partner with engineering fellows, principal engineers, and other senior technical leaders to drive consistent architectural decisions and the adoption of best practices across the entire platform ecosystem.You will identify and mitigate the biggest technical risks in initiatives with C-suite visibility, and you will be the person leadership trusts to make the call on managed vs. self-managed tradeoffs, substrate portability, and multi-hyperscaler strategy.Where you see the need, you will personally design and build the critical components — control planes, operators, infrastructure abstractions, and the systems other teams build on top of.You will mentor staff and principal engineers and shape the next generation of the organization’s technical leadership.