Staff Product Security Engineer | Application Security

Company Description

It all started in sunny San Diego, California in 2004 when a visionary engineer, Fred Luddy, saw the potential to transform how we work. Fast forward to today — ServiceNow stands as a global market leader, bringing innovative AI-enhanced technology to over 8,100 customers, including 85% of the Fortune 500®. Our intelligent cloud-based platform seamlessly connects people, systems, and processes to empower organizations to find smarter, faster, and better ways to work. But this is just the beginning of our journey. Join us as we pursue our purpose to make the world work better for everyone.

Job Description

**Please note, this role requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Santa Clara or San Diego ServiceNow Offices** 

The ServiceNow Security Organization (SSO)   

The ServiceNow Security Organization (SSO) 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    

What you get to do in this role 

• Perform and support security assessments against most modern product features. 

• Support code reviews across a mixed language codebase. 

• Participate and lead the security research initiative. 

• Manage security integration into the SDLC at ServiceNow. 

• Partner with developer team and architects to design, implement and improve application security solutions. 

• Share experience with authentication and authorization models, modern mobile security methodologies, applied cryptography, and secure-by-design development practices. 

• Advocate security awareness and teach secure behavior and methods. 

• Implement best-practice security procedures, standards, and guidelines in the application space. 

• Work on strategic and highly visible BSIMM activities across the organization. 

• Assist in compliance activities such as external audits from customers, regulatory compliance projects, and overall information security reviews. 

• Develop tools that make it easier to ship secure code and harder to ship insecure code. 

• Lead “shift-left” initiatives and scale AppSec efforts across the development organizations. 

Qualifications

To be successful in this role you have: 

• Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI’s potential impact on the function or industry. 

• Gen AI security Testing methodologies.   

• MUST HAVE 8+ years of application/product security experience. 

• MUST HAVE 5+ years working with JAVA 

• You can break down complex security problems into measurable and solvable pieces. 

• You have run/lead an AppSec program.   

• You have experience working with large engineering teams and codebases.  

• Demonstrated experience and expertise with:  

                  -Secure code reviews

                  -Identifying and resolving OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities. 

                  -Threat modeling in an Agile environment. 

                  -Security Verification Standards. 

                  -Cryptography implementations. 

                  -Authentication and authorization schemes. 

                  -Common DAST and SAST tools. 

• Strong understanding of web and mobile application security assessment techniques, threat modeling, general software development practices. 

• Experience with creating automation in a higher-level scripting language (Python, JavaScript, etc.). 

• Ability to perform technical risk assessments, evaluate Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tool results, triage security testing results, and manage security response actions. 

• Self-starter, able to work with a mix of technical and non-technical clients. 

• Bachelor’s OR master's degree in computer science/engineering/information security or equivalent work experience. 

• Ability and passion to coach and mentor junior