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Database Escalation Engineer

ServiceNow12 days ago
Remote
Chicago
Mid Level

Top Benefits

Commuter benefits
Annual learning stipends
Work from home opportunities

About the role

Who you are

  • Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI’s potential impact on the function or industry
  • 4+ years of experience supporting production databases with Performance Tuning, Query Optimization, and analyzing query execution plans for Postgres/MySQL/MariaDB
  • 4+ years of experience with performance and stress testing tools and approaches for driving realistic customer simulations in large datasets for Postgres/MySQL/MariaDB environment
  • In-depth knowledge of running profile and tracing tools in the Database and Linux layer, like perf, gprof, valgrind, strace, flamegraph
  • Experience supporting or testing large-scale web-based distributed applications such as Apache/Tomcat, and WebSphere in a Linux environment
  • Experience supporting applications on a SaaS, PaaS Cloud Infrastructure product/solution
  • Proven experience with concurrency, multithreading, and distributed system architectures
  • Exposure to the Linux platform at the sysadmin level. RHEL certification preferred
  • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with an aptitude for learning new technologies, developing and deploying mission-critical software
  • Eagerness to learn everything about the ServiceNow Platform
  • Supporting federal customers on the isolated stack and being on-call weekly for support 24x7 on a rotation basis
  • Working as a team lead and reviewing Postgres source code and GDB knowledge is a plus

What the job involves

  • This position will include supporting our US Federal and Public Sector customers
  • In this role, you will be part or our SWAT (Software Action Team) that ensures the production reliability and scalability of our customer application(s) and infrastructure services from an operations perspective
  • Our engineers are responsible for restoring database/application services, guiding SRE and CS operations on any database-related issues, working with development on database defects and migrations, and strategizing the scaling of the ServiceNow platform
  • The ideal candidate for this position is a software engineer with a strong background in database technologies, performance analysis of databases and RHEL, and strong troubleshooting skills
  • The candidate must have a passion for chasing issues of complex systems running under dynamic, real-world loads
  • You will work in a fast-paced, innovative environment that allows direct influence on the organization and all our customers
  • In this role, you will support the database infrastructure by learning the Java-based platform from end to end
  • Become an SME in production triage, gain broad knowledge across ServiceNow's applications, JDBC, and Java codebase relevant to the database query generation, and work with all the groups within ServiceNow, especially Engineering/Operations
  • Learn how to identify bugs and solve challenging DB performance issues quickly. SWAT provides an excellent opportunity to learn and grow as a well-rounded problem and performance analyst
  • Develop automation tools to facilitate and improve day-to-day operations, like Ansible and scripting in Python/Ruby

Benefits

  • Commuter benefits
  • Annual learning stipends
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Generous family leave
  • Matched donations
  • Flexible PTO
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid volunteer time

About ServiceNow

Software Development
10,000+

ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) makes the world work better for everyone. Our cloud-based platform and solutions help digitize and unify organizations so that they can find smarter, faster, better ways to make work flow. So employees and customers can be more connected, more innovative, and more agile. And we can all create the future we imagine. The world works with ServiceNow.

For more information, visit www.servicenow.com.