Flexible Senior Staff AI-Native Applications Engineer

ServiceNow, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 191,000 - 334,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

401(k) Plan

ESPP

Flexible time away plan

Family leave programs

Job summary

ServiceNow in Santa Clara is seeking a Senior Staff Applications Development Engineer to design, build, and operate AI-native industry applications across high-tech and regulated sectors. You will work embedded with customers, shaping data models, integrations, and governance while delivering scalable software at production scale.

As a technical leader, you will mentor engineers, drive architecture decisions, and ensure reliability, safety, and performance.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering in SaaS at production scale.
• Experience delivering AI-native features with real user impact.
• Experience authoring agentic instructions and prompts.
• Excellent knowledge of modern UI frameworks and APIs.
• Ability to lead technically complex projects across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate AI-native industry applications.
• Mentor engineers and influence architecture across teams.
• Partner with product managers, designers, and stakeholders.
• Ensure safety, reliability, and performance in production.

Skills

SaaS software engineering

AI-native application development

Lead technical projects

Forward deployed / customer-facing

System design and architecture

Prompts and agent tooling

Mentoring engineers

Java or OO languages

UI frameworks (React/Angular/Vue)

Cloud and distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

React

Angular

Vue

SQL

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

ServiceNow in Santa Clara is seeking a Senior Staff Applications Development Engineer to design, build, and operate AI-native industry applications across high-tech and regulated sectors. You will work embedded with customers, shaping data models, integrations, and governance while delivering scalable software at production scale.

As a technical leader, you will mentor engineers, drive architecture decisions, and ensure reliability, safety, and performance.