ServiceNow
Senior Staff Applications Development Engineer
$191K–$334K
Santa Clara, California, United States · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience in the SaaS industry; a separate qualification states 10+ years with Java or a similar OO language.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- For roles requiring access to controlled technology subject to export control regulations, employment is contingent on obtaining any required export license or government approval.
About the job
Designs, ships, and operates AI-native enterprise applications for industry-specific workflows, including agentic experiences, autonomous workflows, customer integrations, and production evaluation and safety.
What you'll do
- Build and operate scalable AI-native applications, integrations, conversational agents, and autonomous workflows for industry-specific needs.
- Develop prompts, agent instructions, evaluations, and safeguards; monitor quality, reliability, and safety in production.
- Lead complex technical initiatives, mentor engineers, influence architecture, and work with customers and cross-functional partners.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience in the SaaS industry, building and operating products at production scale.
- Track record of shipping and operating production software, including hands-on AI-native application features; experience authoring agentic instructions and prompts, designing autonomous workflows, and evaluating non-deterministic behavior.
- Advanced software engineering fundamentals and modern application architecture, including cloud, distributed systems, APIs, data modeling, and performance optimization.
- Technical leadership across teams, strong communication and mentoring skills, and willingness to work directly with customers.
Nice to have
- ServiceNow platform experience; domain experience in high-tech or adjacent regulated industries.
- Experience with conversational experiences, forward-deployed or customer-environment delivery, modern UI frameworks, and LLM evaluation or prompt-management tools.
Pay
$190,900 - $334,100 USD base pay
Tools
Java, JavaScript, React, Angular, Vue
AI focus
Builds AI-native applications and agentic workflows; authors prompts and instructions, orchestrates tools, evaluates non-deterministic behavior, and implements AI safety, security, and production monitoring.
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