Senior Staff Platform Engineer - Developer Experience

ServiceNow, Inc.

Mountain View (CA)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 260,000

Full time

12 days ago

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Job summary

ServiceNow in Mountain View, CA is seeking a Senior Staff Platform Engineer to own the technical foundation for the Moveworks AI-enabled developer platform. You’ll design scalable, generalizable infrastructure and ship across teams.

You will mentor engineers, set architecture standards, and drive improvements in activation, velocity, and artifact quality while aligning roadmaps with business goals.

Qualifications

12+ years designing, building, and operating production systems.
Experience leading developer platforms with 100+ external teams; proven impact.
Deep expertise in distributed systems, APIs, performance, and observability.
End-to-end ownership and ability to mentor senior engineers.

Responsibilities

Design and build core developer platforms: SDKs, APIs, runtime abstractions, tooling infrastructure.
Own end-to-end delivery of products that increase developer productivity.
Define platform primitives and drive generality, reliability, and clean abstractions.
Drive measurable metrics: activation, velocity, quality, ecosystem breadth.
Lead technical strategy for platform areas: roadmap and cross-team alignment.
Set engineering bar: architecture, observability, and operational excellence.
Mentor senior engineers and raise the team's technical depth.

Skills

Platform design

Distributed systems

API design

Mentoring engineers

Roadmap planning

Cross-team alignment

Job description

You will mentor engineers, set architecture standards, and drive improvements in activation, velocity, and artifact quality while aligning roadmaps with business goals.

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