Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer at ServiceNow. Own end-to-end architecture for customer licensing, metering, billing platform. Distributed systems with accuracy, auditability, low-latency. Guide teams, mentor senior/staff engineers. Partner with product, finance, sales, engineering. 12+ years experience, backend in Java, Python, Go. Domain expertise in billing, licensing, metering. Distributed systems fundamentals, databases, Kubernetes. Architect systems across multiple teams. Principal IC. Shape b

To be successful in this role you have: 12+ years of engineering experience (or equivalent depth), with significant time in distributed systems architecture. Solid backend development in Java, Python, Go or equivalent, used in production at scale. Domain expertise in billing, licensing, metering systems, with working knowledge of how these translate across finance, sales, engineering. Excellent fundamentals in distributed systems — consistency, fault tolerance, idempotency, exactly-once, stream/