Senior Software Engineer

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, Service Now is the AI control tower for business reinvention. Our Service Now 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.

Service Now 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
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• Build high-quality, scalable, clean, and reusable applications and integration solutions using Service Now 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 Service Now 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.

• 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.
• 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.