Startups

Staff Software Engineer - Product Security

ServiceNow · Petah Tikva, IL · On-site

← All jobs
About ServiceNow

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.

About the role

This is a new team being stood up in Petah Tikva, Israel, co-located with ServiceNow’s AI Security Research team. You will help shape the team’s engineering practices and technical foundation from day one. This role reports to the Sr. Engineering Manager, Security R&D. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems at scale
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
  • Strong hands-on proficiency in Python and Java. You write production code daily and take pride in software craftsmanship
  • Solid foundation in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and building services that meet enterprise requirements for scalability, reliability, and performance
  • Experience working in collaborative engineering environments, contributing to shared codebases with high code quality standards
  • Exposure to AI/ML pipelines, LLM integration, or agentic frameworks
More about this role

ServiceNow’s Product Security organisation is building a dedicated Security R&D function — a software engineering team that builds security capabilities with the same engineering rigour as ServiceNow’s product organisation. We are looking for a Staff Security Engineer to be a core contributor on this team.

Security R&D operates in two complementary modes: open contribution to product engineering — writing code alongside product teams where security expertise adds value — and developing its own security capabilities , including internal tooling, externally facing product features, AI-powered security automation, and third-party integrations.

This is a new team being stood up in Petah Tikva, Israel, co-located with ServiceNow’s AI Security Research team. You will help shape the team’s engineering practices and technical foundation from day one.

This role reports to the Sr. Engineering Manager, Security R&D.

  • Design and develop security tooling, automation, and platform services that operate at ServiceNow’s enterprise scale.
  • Contribute code directly into ServiceNow product engineering codebases, embedding security capabilities where they have the highest impact.
  • Build AI-powered...

Read the full posting on ServiceNow's site ↗

Build your edge while you search

Free tools for founders and investors, plus VC Unfiltered, our take on startups, venture and the people who build them.