# Senior Staff Software Engineer – Compute Engineering at ServiceNow

- Company: ServiceNow
- What the company does: It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. Backed by Greylock and Sequoia.
- Company website: https://www.servicenow.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Santa Clara, CALIFORNIA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $191K to $334K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-29
- Apply by: 2026-12-13
- Apply: https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/ServiceNow/744000158421823?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/servicenow-senior-staff-software-engineer-compute-engineering/

## About the role

Join the Compute Engineering organization, which builds the scheduling, capacity, and performance systems that run our platform across private and public cloud. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 12+ years of related experience in software engineering, cloud, or infrastructure automation with a Bachelor's degree, or 8+ years and a Master's degree, or a PhD with 5+ years of experience, or equivalent experience
- 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, such as Kubernetes, Slurm, or internal equivalents
- Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or Java, with experience in related languages
- Experience with capacity planning, performance engineering, or load testing at scale
- Hands-on experience applying ML in production, including models, feature pipelines, or ML platforms. Using AI tools alone is not enough

Tags: Engineering, Infrastructure and...

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/servicenow-senior-staff-software-engineer-compute-engineering/