Drimva

ServiceNow

Principal Software Engineer

$221K–$387K

Santa Clara, CALIFORNIA, United States · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026

Experience
15+ years of software engineering experience, including significant technical and engineering leadership responsibility.
Education
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

About the job

Leads the architecture and delivery of AI-native security products that use advanced AI to solve cybersecurity problems and operate reliably at enterprise scale.

What you'll do

  • Set technical vision, architecture, and engineering standards for AI-native security solutions.
  • Partner with product, UX, security, customers, and engineering teams to turn high-value problems into differentiated products; represent technical strategy to stakeholders.
  • Lead and mentor engineers, champion AI-native development practices, and drive cross-team initiatives.

What they ask for

  • 15+ years of software engineering experience, including significant technical and engineering leadership responsibility.
  • Production experience designing and delivering AI/ML-powered products and platforms, including modern AI systems and agentic architectures.
  • Strong software architecture and backend experience with distributed systems, APIs, microservices, cloud-native platforms, and enterprise-scale workloads.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

  • Cybersecurity product experience or deep familiarity with security architectures and operations.
  • Experience with Java, Go, or similar languages.

Pay

$221,200 - $387,100 USD base salary

Tools

React, Node.js, Python, Java, REST, GraphQL, SQL, AWS

AI focus

Build production AI-native security solutions using frontier models, agentic AI, reasoning, retrieval, knowledge systems, and advanced ML; apply AI to cybersecurity problems and use AI coding agents and autonomous development, testing, evaluation, and operational workflows.

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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)