Software Engineer - Federal

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Job Summary

The Software Engineer designs, builds, and ships features for the Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) suite of products, which helps organizations align work with business objectives, manage demand, resources, and projects, and accelerate product and service delivery. This role combines strong engineering execution with product judgment. The engineer works closely with product managers to understand customer problems, shape solutions, and deliver them end to end. The role also builds AI-native features and uses AI tools to accelerate design, development, testing, and delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deliver features for the Portfolio Management suite.
• Build AI-native features that use generative and agentic capabilities to improve planning workflows, insights, and user experience.
• Apply AI tools effectively across the development lifecycle, including code generation, test creation, debugging, documentation, and code review, while validating output for correctness, security, and maintainability.
• Partner with product managers to translate customer needs into well-scoped technical solutions and to weigh trade-offs between user value, complexity, and delivery timelines.
• Write clean, tested, and maintainable code with automation and participate in code reviews, design reviews, and release activities, and contribute to team engineering practices.
• Investigate and resolve production issues, including P1 escalations during US business hours, and drive root cause analysis and preventive fixes.
• Contribute to platform security, accessibility (WCAG), and quality improvements.

Qualifications

*This position is not eligible for employment-based sponsorship*

• U.S. citizen or Green card (lawful permanent resident) holder only. This requirement is due to federal contract eligibility.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, with 3–5 years of professional software engineering experience, or a Master's degree in a related field with 2–3 years of professional software engineering experience.
• 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.
• Demonstrated experience building applications full stack applications using modern UX frameworks, JavaScript/TypeScript and a server-side language (for example, Java or Python).
• Builder mindset: thinks like a product manager, designer, engineer, and tester at the same time, weighing user value, usability, technical design, and quality risk before committing to a solution.
• Demonstrated effective use of AI tools (such as coding assistants, LLM-based tools, or AI-enabled testing) to improve engineering productivity, and sound judgment about when to rely on AI output and when to verify it.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work with product, QE, and platform partners.
• Familiarity with developing products that are accessibility compliant (WCAG).

For positions in this location, we offer a base pay of $125,700 - $160,300, 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, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity,  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. 

Export Control Regulations

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