Senior Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience — Moveworks

Moveworks; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Competitive compensation

Excellent health benefits

Job summary

Moveworks is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience to own the technical foundation of the developer platform. You will design and ship core platforms, APIs, and tooling that enable teams to build faster and more reliably.

You'll lead end-to-end delivery, drive platform generality, and mentor senior engineers while shaping cross-team roadmaps for the Moveworks Agentic AI platform. This role requires in-office presence in Mountain View, CA 5x/week.

Qualifications

• 12+ years designing, building and operating production systems.
• Led design and multi-year operation of developer platforms.
• Strong systems engineer with scale of production microservices.
• End-to-end ownership and hands-on coding.

Responsibilities

• Design and build core developer platforms: SDKs, APIs, runtime abstractions.
• Own end-to-end delivery of products that increase developer productivity.
• Define platform primitives with generality and reliable abstractions.
• Drive measurable supply metrics: activation, velocity, quality.
• Lead technical strategy: roadmap, API design, cross-team alignment.
• Set engineering bar: architecture, observability, operational excellence.
• Mentor senior engineers and raise the team's depth.

Skills

12+ years production systems

Platform/infrastructure leadership

Systems engineering

API design

End-to-end ownership

Developer activation Funnels

Tools

Microservices tooling

Observability tooling

Job description

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience — Moveworks

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

bThis role requires in-office presence in Mountain View, CA 5x/weekb

bAbout the Teamb

The Developer Experience team builds platforms that enable developers building on the Moveworks Agentic AI platform. We own the flywheel: more builders → more integrations shipped → better assistant → more demand. We build scalable infrastructure first, then the products on top of it. Platform engineering discipline meets developer-facing product thinking.

bThe Roleb

You own the technical foundation the team ships on. You design and build the hardest platform problems — generality, scalability, extensibility — while keeping developer experience as the measure. You think in systems. You ship. You bring others along.

bWhat You'll Dob

• Design and build core developer platforms: SDKs, APIs, runtime abstractions, tooling infrastructure, developer-facing services
• Own end-to-end delivery of products that increase developer productivity: faster time-to-market, higher-quality artifacts, lower friction
• Define platform primitives other products build on — bias toward generality, reliability, clean abstractions
• Drive measurable supply metrics: developer activation, integration velocity, artifact quality, ecosystem breadth
• Lead technical strategy for your platform areas: roadmap, API design, cross-team alignment
• Set the engineering bar: architecture, design standards, observability, operational excellence
• Mentor senior engineers; raise the team's technical depth

bWhat We Look For at Senior Staff Levelb

You're a multiplier. You trace developer pain to platform gaps, design general solutions, ship them in ways that unlock categories of use cases. You raise the abstraction level of everything you touch. You shape product decisions from the technical side. Your mentees have gone on to senior roles or owned critical systems.

Qualifications

bRequired:b

• 12+ years designing, building, operating production systems; significant platform or infrastructure team experience
• Experience leading design and multi-year operation of developer platforms that reached 100+ external teams; can point to instances where the platform unlocked new use cases or accelerated velocity by order of magnitude
• Strong systems engineer with fluency in production microservices environments at scale
• Built general-purpose platforms other engineers depend on; understand what makes an abstraction good vs. leaky
• End-to-end ownership: you design, code, debug in production, iterate based on real feedback — not handing off at the design doc
• Navigate tradeoffs with incomplete data: know when to generalize vs. specialize, when to build vs. integrate, when to move fast vs. lock in design
• Understand developer activation funnels and feedback loops that turn builders into core contributors

bNice to Have:b

• Familiarity with LLM-based architectures or agent orchestration patterns
• Experience with enterprise developer environments: auth, sandboxing, compliance, multi-tenancy constraints

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bEqual Opportunity Employerb

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