Senior Software Engineer

ServiceNow; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 143,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

401(k) Plan with company match

ESPP

Matching donations

Flexible time away plan

Family leave programs

Job summary

ServiceNow is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the CRM domain, focusing on customer service workflows, including case and work order management and guided agent experiences. You will own complex components end to end, collaborating with product, design, and platform teams to ship workflows that agents and customers rely on daily.

You will bring strong engineering fundamentals, a bias for quality at scale, and a drive to make customer-facing processes faster and more intelligent with AI.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering with evidence of technical leadership beyond own team.
• Experience using AI coding assistants and agents in production environments.
• Hands-on experience authoring agentic instructions and prompts, and building autonomous workflows.

Responsibilities

• Build high-quality, scalable, clean, and reusable applications and integration solutions on the ServiceNow platform.
• Collaborate with product owners from design to delivery, including test automation and high-quality product delivery.
• Design and develop scalable, maintainable software components with focus on performance and reliability.
• Own critical technical initiatives from planning to deployment and continuously improve existing apps and services.
• Explore new ServiceNow features and evaluate them for adoption.
• Develop proof-of-concept solutions to validate architecture and feasibility.
• Establish best practices for platform development, integrations, and performance optimization.
• Foster continuous learning and share engineering practices.
• Mentor engineers and support professional growth within the team.

Skills

AI coding assistants

Agent orchestration

LLM APIs

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

React

CI/CD

On‑call incident management

Troubleshooting

System design

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Tools

JUnit

Selenium

TestNG

Playwright

Job description

Company Description

It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could do that for everyone—freeing people from busywork so they could focus on meaningful work. Today, ServiceNow is the AI control tower for business reinvention. Our ServiceNow AI platform brings together any AI, any data, and any workflow— helping 85% of the Fortune 500® work smarter, faster, and better. We're building an AI-native culture where technology and talent are unstoppable together. And we're just getting started.

Company Description

It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could do that for everyone—freeing people from busywork so they could focus on meaningful work. Today, ServiceNow is the AI control tower for business reinvention. Our ServiceNow AI platform brings together any AI, any data, and any workflow— helping 85% of the Fortune 500® work smarter, faster, and better. We're building an AI-native culture where technology and talent are unstoppable together. And we're just getting started.

Join us to put AI to work for people.

Job Description

ServiceNow CRM helps companies sell, fulfil, and service customers on one AI-powered platform, spanning Customer Service Management, Field Service Management, and Sales CRM.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and build features across Customer service workflows, including case and work order management and guided agent experiences.

You will own complex components end to end, working closely with product, design, and adjacent platform teams to ship workflows that agents and customers rely on every day. You will bring strong engineering fundamentals, a bias for quality at scale, and a drive to make customer-facing processes faster and more intelligent with AI.

What You Will Do

• Build high-quality, scalable, clean, and reusable applications and integration solutions using ServiceNow platform and related technologies.
• Partner with the product owners to understand detailed requirements and own your code from design, implementation, test automation and delivery of high-quality products to our users.
• Design and develop scalable, maintainable, and reusable software components with a strong emphasis on performance and reliability.
• Own critical technical initiatives from planning to deployment, continuously refining and improving existing applications and services.
• Explore the latest ServiceNow features and evaluate them for adoption
• Develop proof‑of‑concept and prototype solutions to validate architectural, design decisions and demonstrate feasibility.
• Establish and promote best practices around platform development, integrations, and performance optimization.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement by sharing best practices in engineering and quality
• Mentor and guide engineers, fostering technical excellence and professional growth within the team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering, with a record of technical direction adopted beyond your immediate team.
• Effective, accountable use of AI coding assistants and agents.
• Direct, hands‑on experience authoring agentic instructions and prompts, designing autonomous workflows, and building the evaluation that verifies them.
• Production experience with LLM APIs, retrieval‑grounded features, agent orchestration, tool and function calling, and structured output enforcement — including at least one model or orchestration migration carried through production.
• Experience in system design, APIs, data modelling, and testing across front‑end, server‑side, and relational data work with a high quality mindset.
• Experience in software stack including Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, React and demonstrated ability to quickly learn new tools and frameworks.
• Familiarity with automated testing frameworks (e.g., JUnit, Selenium, TestNG, Playwright) and integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• On‑call and incident‑command experience on customer‑facing systems, including ownership of the systemic fixes that followed.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex systems and optimize performance across the stack.
• Bachelor's degree in CS, software engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Good To Have

• Experience using AI Coding tools such as Claude or Codex.
• CRM domain knowledge and working experience

For positions in this location, we offer a base pay of $143,200 - $243,400, plus equity (when applicable), variable/incentive compensation and benefits. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure. Please note that the base pay shown is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies, and work location. We also offer health plans, including flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, matching donations, a flexible time away plan and family leave programs. Compensation is based on the geographic location in which the role is located and is subject to change based on work location.

Work Personas

We approach our distributed world of work with flexibility and trust. Work personas (flexible, remote, or required in office) are categories that are assigned to ServiceNow employees depending on the nature of their work and their assigned work location. Learn more here. To determine eligibility for a work persona, ServiceNow may confirm the distance between your primary residence and the closest ServiceNow office using a third‑party service.

Equal Opportunity Employer

ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements.

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