Staff Backend Engineer - Distributed Systems Orchestrator

ServiceNow; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ServiceNow in Mountain View, California is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Moveworks to develop runtime infrastructure critical for AI agents. The role focuses on distributed systems and requires a minimum of 7 years in backend/infrastructure development.

Candidates should have expertise in Python or Go and experience managing systems at scale. The position is full-time and requires presence in the office. A commitment to inclusivity and equal opportunity is key at ServiceNow.

Qualifications

• 7+ years building production backend/infrastructure systems.
• Strong in Python or Go (ideally both).
• Experience designing systems that handle real traffic at scale.
• Comfort with ambiguity and novel problems.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain an agent orchestration engine.
• Manage distributed session management with DynamoDB.
• Create an event-driven message pipeline.
• Establish observability infrastructure.

Skills

Distributed systems

Concurrent/async programming

Database systems

Observability

Python

Go

Tools

DynamoDB

Redis

OpenTelemetry

Kafka

Job description

ServiceNow in Mountain View, California is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Moveworks to develop runtime infrastructure critical for AI agents. The role focuses on distributed systems and requires a minimum of 7 years in backend/infrastructure development.

Candidates should have expertise in Python or Go and experience managing systems at scale. The position is full-time and requires presence in the office. A commitment to inclusivity and equal opportunity is key at ServiceNow.