Senior Backend Engineer - AI Agent Orchestration

Servicenow; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ServiceNow is looking for a Distributed Systems Engineer in Mountain View, California, to build the runtime infrastructure for Moveworks' AI agents. The role involves developing a state machine, event-driven systems, and ensuring system observability. Candidates should have 5+ years of production systems experience and strong skills in Python or Go. This position offers an opportunity to work in a cutting-edge AI environment where innovation is paramount.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production backend/infrastructure systems.
• Strong in Python or Go (ideally both).
• Experience designing and operating systems that handle real traffic at scale.

Responsibilities

• Build the runtime infrastructure for Moveworks' AI agents.
• Develop a state machine for managing agent sessions.
• Implement event-driven message pipelines.

Skills

Distributed systems

Concurrent/async programming

Event‑driven architectures

Database systems for infrastructure

Observability

gRPC/protobuf

Tools

Python

Go

DynamoDB

Redis

Job description

ServiceNow is looking for a Distributed Systems Engineer in Mountain View, California, to build the runtime infrastructure for Moveworks' AI agents. The role involves developing a state machine, event-driven systems, and ensuring system observability. Candidates should have 5+ years of production systems experience and strong skills in Python or Go. This position offers an opportunity to work in a cutting-edge AI environment where innovation is paramount.