Senior Staff Software Engineer, ServiceNow
Agent Development
$190.9-334.1k
Cloud-based digital workflows for enterprises
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Cloud-based digital workflows for enterprises
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$190.9-334.1k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To transform IT to revolutionize the enterprise.
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
- 12 years of software engineering with strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems with a Bachelor's degree; or 8 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 5 years experience; or equivalent experience
- Hands-on depth designing, shipping, and operating agentic systems in production — multi-agent orchestration, tool calling, planning loops, memory, and failure recovery. Not prototypes
- Production-grade Python. Systems language (Go, Java, or C++) is a plus
- Working experience with frontier AI SDKs (Anthropic, Google, or OpenAI) — prompt engineering, structured outputs, and model evaluation in production settings
- Familiarity with RAG and retrieval patterns in production — vector stores, hybrid search, and retrieval evaluation metrics
- Track record of technical leadership: architecture ownership, code quality bar-raising, and mentoring engineers on production AI practices
- Comfort operating in fast-moving, ambiguous, startup-like AI product environments with high degree of ownership
- Experience with multi-agent coordination patterns (A2A, MCP)
- Familiarity with agent frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar)
- Prior experience shipping AI systems in enterprise software
- Experience with AI observability tooling (tracing, cost tracking, LLM-specific monitoring)
- Strong appetite for continuous incremental wins and completing challenging deliverables fast
What the job involves
- Design and develop scalable, maintainable, and reusable software components with a strong emphasis on performance and reliability
- Collaborate with product managers to translate requirements into well-architected solutions, owning features from design through delivery
- Build intuitive and extensible user experiences using modern UI frameworks, ensuring flexibility for customer-specific needs
- Contribute to the design and implementation of new products and features while enhancing existing product capabilities
- Integrate automated testing into development workflows to ensure consistent quality across releases
- Participate in design and code reviews ensuring best practices in performance, maintainability, and testability
- Develop comprehensive test strategies covering functional, regression, integration, and performance aspects
- Mentor other engineers on the team in how to build, maintain, and evolve great AI powered software solutions
- Foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement by sharing best practices in engineering and quality
- Promote a culture of engineering craftsmanship, knowledge-sharing, and thoughtful quality practices across the team
Our take
ServiceNow provides cloud-based solutions that define, structure, manage, and automate services for enterprise operations, transforming old, manual ways of working into modern digital workflows. The company was founded in 2004 with a vision to build a cloud-based platform that would enable regular people to route work effectively through the enterprise.
Much as Salesforce enables a company to manage its external clients by keeping a record of all contacts and interactions, ServiceNow promises an internal system to meet the needs of employees. It has succeeded in claiming half the market, setting itself apart from legacy IT service-management software players like BMC Software, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cherwell Software and CA Technologies.
The company's success comes from two product traits: simplicity and customisability. ServiceNow's IT tools don't require the IT department to set them up. Once running, they offer a single collection centre for requests, data points and checklists, all of which can in turn be analysed by algorithms to predict needs, flag concerns and measure efficiency.
The company has more than 7,700 customers, including 85% of the Fortune 500 list of the United States' largest corporations. ServiceNow now looks to increase its revenue threefold in the upcoming years and has entered into a 5-year partnership plan with Visa, beginning with the launch of a Visa-integrated dispute resolution solution for issuers. The company is prioritising organic growth over mergers and acquisitions, with a target revenue of $15B, something which its Visa partnership will no doubt aid in achieving.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Mar 2012
$11m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Feb 2012
$17.9m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $83.8m
Company benefits
- Generous family leave
- Matched donations
- Annual learning stipends
- Flexible PTO
- Competitive retirement plan
- Paid volunteer time
Company HQ
Santa Clara, CA
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