Senior Staff Software Engineer, ServiceNow
Agentic Systems, Moveworks
Office located in Mountain View, CA
Cloud-based digital workflows for enterprises
Job no longer available
Cloud-based digital workflows for enterprises
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
Office located in Mountain View, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To transform IT to revolutionize the enterprise.
Role
Who you are
- You should have deep experience in at least 3 of these areas:
- Distributed systems: consistency models, idempotency, exactly-once delivery, distributed locking/leasing
- Concurrent/async programming: Python asyncio, Go goroutines, structured concurrency, cancellation handling
- Event-driven architectures: message queues (SQS, Kafka), pub/sub, backpressure, delivery guarantees
- Database systems for infrastructure: DynamoDB (conditional writes, transactions), Redis (connection pooling, pub/sub)
- Observability: OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, span context propagation, Prometheus metrics
- GRPC/protobuf: streaming RPCs, service interface design, error handling patterns
- 10+ years building production backend/infrastructure systems
- Strong in Python or Go (ideally both)
- Experience designing and operating systems that handle real traffic at scale
- Comfort with ambiguity — these are novel problems without textbook solutions
What the job involves
- We're building the runtime infrastructure that powers Moveworks' AI agents — the systems that orchestrate, execute, and deliver agent responses to millions of enterprise users in real time
- This is not an ML role. This is a distributed systems engineering role at the heart of the agentic AI wave
- Our AI agents can plan, execute multi-step workflows, call tools, wait on human input, and resume — all while maintaining correctness, observability, and low latency. The systems that make this possible are what you'll build and own
- Agent orchestration engine — A state machine that manages long-running agent sessions, coordinating planning, execution, and user interaction across multiple LLM calls and tool invocations
- Distributed session management — Lease-based ownership using DynamoDB conditional writes, heartbeat protocols, and crash recovery via checkpointing
- Event-driven message pipeline — SQS FIFO queues for ordered delivery, Kafka consumers for event processing, and real-time streaming via gRPC and Socket.IO
- Structured concurrency — Python asyncio TaskGroups running multiple concurrent tasks per session (message polling, lease heartbeats, output publishing, orchestrator execution) with fail-fast semantics and graceful cancellation
- Observability infrastructure — OpenTelemetry instrumentation, distributed trace context propagation across async boundaries, custom span lifecycle management for sessions that span minutes
- Caching and state layers — Redis, DynamoDB KV stores with per-org/per-bot scoping, batch read optimization, and hot-reload configuration
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.
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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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