Drimva

ServiceNow

Senior Staff Software Engineer – Compute Engineering

$191K–$334K

Santa Clara, CALIFORNIA, United States · Hybrid · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026

Experience
12+ years with a Bachelor's degree; or 8+ years with a Master's degree; or a PhD with 5+ years of experience; or equivalent experience.
Education
Bachelor's degree; or Master's degree; or PhD; or equivalent experience.

About the job

Designs and operates compute scheduling, capacity, performance, and reliability systems across private and public cloud for ServiceNow’s platform.

What you'll do

  • Design and evolve scheduler and resource-management systems, capacity models, and placement decisions.
  • Establish performance and scale testing; apply AI and ML to forecasting, anomaly detection, and placement optimization where effective.
  • Own production reliability and incident response, guide technical decisions, and mentor engineers.

What they ask for

  • Deep experience designing multi-tenant, cloud-native SaaS at enterprise scale, including distributed systems, large-scale data systems, APIs, and microservices.
  • Experience designing or operating large-scale schedulers or resource managers; strong programming skills in Go, Python, or Java.
  • Hands-on experience applying ML in production; experience with capacity planning, performance engineering, or load testing at scale.
  • Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management; cloud infrastructure across private and public clouds.

Nice to have

  • Experience with ML-driven scheduling, forecasting, or capacity optimization.
  • Working knowledge of internet protocols such as DNS, NTP, and HTTP; experience with release management and large-scale server infrastructure.

Pay

$190,900 - $334,100 USD base salary

Tools

Go, Python, Java, Kubernetes, Slurm, Terraform, Ansible, Azure, AWS, GCP

AI focus

Apply AI and ML to forecasting, anomaly detection, and placement optimization; hands-on production ML experience is required.

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First seen Oct 29, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)