Principal Security Engineer

Company Description

At ServiceNow, our technology makes the world work for everyone, and our people make it possible. We move fast because the world can’t wait, and we innovate in ways no one else can for our customers and communities. By joining ServiceNow, you are part of an ambitious team of change makers who have a restless curiosity and a drive for ingenuity. We know that your best work happens when you live your best life and share your unique talents, so we do everything we can to make that possible. We dream big together, supporting each other to make our individual and collective dreams come true. The future is ours, and it starts with you. 

With more than 7,700+ customers, we serve approximately 85% of the Fortune 500®, and we're proud to be one of FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® and World's Most Admired Companies™.

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Job Description

About Digital Technology & The SSO  

We’re not yesterday’s IT department, we're Digital Technology. The world around us keeps changing and so do we. We’re redefining what it means to be IT with a mindset centered on transformation, experience, AI-driven automation, innovation, and growth.   

We’re all about delivering delightful, secure customer and employee experiences that accelerate ServiceNow’s journey to become the defining enterprise software company of the 21st century. And we love co-creating, using, and highlighting our own products to do it.   

Ultimately, we strive to make the world work better for our employees and customers when you work in ServiceNow Digital Technology, you work for them.   

The ServiceNow Security Organization delivers world-class, innovative security solutions to reduce risk and protect the company and our customers. We enable our customers to migrate their most sensitive data and workloads to the cloud, accelerating our business so that we are the most trusted SaaS provider. We create an environment where our employees are proud to work and can make a positive impact  

Position Overview:

As Principal Security Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of our company and driving the execution of our technology roadmap. This is a highly cross functional role where you will lead assembled teams of talented engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence. Leveraging your expertise in engineering, development and software architecture, you will design and deploy scalable systems, design robust solutions, and ensure the highest standards of quality and performance across our infrastructure. 

What you get to do in this role: 

• As a key member of our Enterprise Security team, you will be responsible for designing, building and consulting on complex solutions related to securing our global cloud infrastructure. 

• Deep technical understanding of operating systems, web technologies, application and development methodologies and tooling, the ability to both oversee, or be hands-on to prove out value propositions for emerging technologies. 

• Research security technologies and products in the marketplace and evaluate fit-for-purpose.   

• Create security requirements by aligning business strategies and stakeholder interests, using your knowledge of information security standards, external compliance, and industry best practices. 

• Bring your experience around conducting security, vulnerability analyses, and risk assessments to produce architecture/platform designs that highlight broader opportunities and support cost estimations. 

• Supports cross team collaboration and the creation of common practices and patterns to encourage consistency and reusability across various functional roles. 

• Evaluates existing security designs; identifying opportunities and working with leadership to prioritize technology investments related to networking; cryptography (PKIs), endpoint security, and server and monitoring infrastructure. 

• Supports secure system implementati