Staff Security Software Engineer | Python

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 

What you get to do in this role:    

• Build high-quality, clean, scalable and reusable code by enforcing best practices around software engineering architecture and processes (code reviews, unit testing, etc.). 

• Work closely with the technical program managers and product owners to understand detailed requirements and own your code from design, implementation, test automation and delivery of high-quality products to our users. 

• Contribute to the design and implementation of new products and features  

• Be a mentor for colleagues and help promote knowledge-sharing 

• Create technical documentation and communicate technical concepts to both non-technical business users and technical stakeholders 

• Resolve vulnerabilities identified in code scans 

Qualifications

To be successful in this role you have: 

• 8+ years of experience with Python 

• 6+ years of Linux (Ubuntu or Debian) 

• Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes (i.e., Helm, deployment patterns, best practices) 

• Extensive experience with microservice–oriented architectures 

• Excellent understanding of software engineering best practices 

• Excellent technical design, problem-solving, debugging skills, and an aptitude for learning new technologies 

• Knowledge of system design and performance/scale considerations 

• You enjoy coordinating with others to ensure complex engineering projects are done well. 

• Proven ability to operate in a lead software engineer role on complex development projects. 

• Experience with Agile software development and knowledge of DevOps best practices 

• Familiarity with building continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to build, test, and deploy container images 

• Strong verbal and written communication skills 

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