Staff Database Engineer (SWAT)

at  Servicenow

Company Description
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Job Description

WHAT YOU GET TO DO IN THIS ROLE

• Strong experience with performance and stress testing tools and approaches for driving realistic customer simulations
• 10+ years of database management and performance tuning
• 10+ years of experience supporting or testing large scale web-based distributed applications on containers such as Apache/Tomcat, JBoss, Web Logic, and Web Sphere in a Unix environment
• 3+ years of experience developing on a SaaS, PaaS, or Cloud Infrastructure product/solution
• Proven experience with concurrency, multithreading, and distributed system architectures
• Unix skills: including development, navigation, file manipulation, permissions, searching/finding files and text contents, and administrative actions
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with an aptitude for learning new technologies
• developing and deploying mission critical software
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Systems or equivalent technical discipline, or similar work experience.
• Eagerness to learn everything about the ServiceNow Platform
  Qualifications

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE YOU HAVE:

• Experience with service now platform, scripting, tuning, troubleshooting is highly preferred.
• Scripting: shell scripting, Python and/or Javascript
• Solid understanding and experience with databases mainly MariaDB/Mysql (and Oracle)
• Solid understanding of schemas, table spaces, indexing, and database performance optimization
• Familiarity or knowledge of CentOS/RedHat operating system (admin/root level)
• Demonstrated experience leading individual projects, including scheduling and reporting
• Formal experience on a DevOps or Performance or support team is desired
  Additional Information
  ServiceNow is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status or any other category protected by law.
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