Distinguished Engineer – Developer Productivity

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.

What you get to do in this role:

Are you passionate about developer velocity and happiness? 

• The Developer Productivity team at ServiceNow is responsible for building, evolving and operating ServiceNow’s end-end development pipeline. 
• As a Distinguished Engineer with the Developer Productivity group, you will be responsible for driving key initiatives that go across all ServiceNow development teams and significantly affect our development speed and quality and developer happiness.  
• This is an opportunity to help drive CI/CD across an extremely large codebase, leveraging AI at every stage.  This is a challenging role working across the company to enable CI/CD transformation.
• You will provide technical leadership and be able to coach and mentor other software engineers in different methodologies. 
• You will provide deep technical influence on the performance and reliability of ServiceNow’s CI/CD pipeline.
• You will provide perspective on leading industry CICD trends, recommendations on new and emerging technologies, and are able to resolve complex technical problems.

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.
• 10+ years software development experience including: 
• Deep passion for developer productivity and happiness
• Expert level understanding of best practices for modern CICD across all layers of the stack – server backend, web UI and mobile, building and consuming LLMs
• Expert level understanding of Jenkins, GitHub and related technologies
• Expert level understanding of Java and JavaScript
• Expert level understanding of the testing pyramid and modern test automation strategies and technologies for all layers of the stack
• Deep understanding and interest in modern code and testing AI assistance technologies such as Windsurf, Claude Code, Copilot
• Deep experience in driving performance and reliability initiatives
• Deep experience with the top cloud providers including AWS
• Demonstrated success driving CICD transformation of large codebases
• Demonstrated success driving improved developer velocity, quality and happiness
• It'd be even better if you have: 

• Experience working with containers and Kubernetes
• Expert ability to influence and work across a large number of development teams with differing requirements
• Ability to identify and reduce developer friction at every development stage
• Ability to evaluate 3rd party technologies and vendors
• Ability to present and influence senior executives

 

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For positions in this location, we offer a base pay of $250,200 - $437,900, 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.

Work Personas

We approach our distributed world of work with flexibility and trust. Work personas (flexible, remote, or required in office) are categories that are assigned to ServiceNow employees depending on the nature of their work and their assigned work location. Learn more here. To determine eligibility for a work persona, ServiceNow may confirm the distance between your primary residence and the closest ServiceNow office using a third-party service.

Equal Opportunity Employer

ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements. 

Accommodations

We strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, or are unable to use this online application and need an alternative method to apply, please contact [email protected] for assistance. 

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