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Senior Software Engineer

ServiceNow
San Diego, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 2 Oct 2025

About the role

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

Team Info:

Step into our world where data transcends as we orchestrate publishing and consuming of real-time streams via Apache Kafka on the Platform. Stream Connect for Apache Kafka links a customer’s kafka environment to the ServiceNow instance enabling high-volume data streaming between the instance and the external systems with low latency. As architects of data flow, we empower some of ServiceNow’s most remarkable applications (CMDB, SecOps, HR, ITOM ..).

As we continue to push the boundaries of data flow, we are actively seeking passionate engineers who possess the ability to rapidly acquire new knowledge and contribute to the development of robust and scalable solutions.

What you get to do in this role:

  • Design, develop, and maintain robust solutions to support Stream Processing.
  • 30% Front End (JavaScript, React & Angular) and 70% Back End Development (Java)
  • Create guided and intuitive experience to enable low code development
  • Building high-quality, clean, scalable, and reusable code by enforcing best practices around software engineering architecture and processes (Code Reviews, Unit testing, etc.)
  • Work with the product owners to understand detailed requirements and own your code from design, implementation, test automation and delivery of high-quality products to our users.
  • Implement software that is simple to use to allow customers to extend and customize the functionality to meet their specific needs.
  • Help design and implement new products and features while also enhancing the existing product suite
  • Be a mentor for colleagues and help promote knowledge-sharing.

To be successful in this role you have:

  • Experience with data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, design patterns, and performance/scale considerations
  • Experience working with relational databases including development, troubleshooting and performance optimization.
  • Experience with multiple technology stacks: Cloud Dev, Platforms, Web Dev, Frameworks or service–oriented architecture
  • Passion for JavaScript and the Web as a platform, reusability, and componentization
  • Experience with data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, design patterns, and performance/scale considerations
  • Experience with any of the modern UI frameworks like Angular, React or Vue
  • Analytical and design skills
  • Working knowledge and ability to use tools to assist with daily tasks (IDE, debugger, build tools, source control, ServiceNow instances, profilers, system administration/Unix tools)

Qualifications

  • 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. 
  • Experience In using AI Productivity tools such as Windsurf, Cursor, etc is a plus or nice to have.
  • 4+ years of experience with Java or a similar OO language

Nice to have:

  •  Experience with event streaming platforms like Apache Kafka

 

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For positions in this location, we offer a base pay of <<ENTER RANGE HERE>>, plus equity (when applicable), variable/incentive compensation and benefits. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure. Please note that the base pay shown is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies, and work location. We also offer health plans, including flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, matching donations, a flexible time away plan and family leave programs. 

 

 

 

Compensation is based on the geographic location in which the role is located and is subject to change based on work location.

 

Additional Information

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