Associate Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure - Moveworks

ServiceNow ServiceNow · Enterprise · Mountain View, CA +1 · Engineering

This role focuses on building and maintaining the core infrastructure for a company that uses AI-enhanced technology. Responsibilities include architecting distributed systems, improving observability, and optimizing performance and scalability. It is an engineering role focused on foundational functionalities rather than direct AI model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Closely work with machine learning, search, product, data, and frontend teams, understand their infrastructure needs, influence infrastructure roadmap, and lead as well as execute on various projects
  2. Architect and build out the core infrastructure and foundational functionalities such as 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, etc.
  3. Improve observability and reliability of Moveworks systems by building and enhancing distributed logging, tracing, monitoring, and alerting infrastructure
  4. Define methodologies and metrics to measure performance of microservices and product functionalities, identify and fix bottlenecks, as well as improve overall performance and scalability of Moveworks applications
  5. Regularly deliver deadline sensitive work that is interdependent with other engineering teams

Skills

Required

  • Designing, building, shipping, and maintaining backend distributed systems
  • Python/Golang/Java/C++
  • Containers/Docker
  • Cloud infrastructure like AWS/GCP/Azure
  • Kafka, Elasticsearch or Opensearch, Istio
  • Performance, optimization, scalability, latency, and monitoring
  • BS+ in computer science or a related field

Nice to have

  • Desire to work at a startup pace in a small company with a high degree of ownership
  • 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

What the JD emphasized

  • 0-3 years of experience
  • startup pace
  • high degree of ownership
  • challenging projects fast