[Skip to main content](#main-content) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) [Hiring report](/reports/hiring/) · [All ServiceNow jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/servicenow/) · [Search jobs](/search/) ServiceNow · San Diego, CA # Senior Staff Software Engineer San Diego, California, United States Full-time Senior individual contributor $171,900 - $300,800 Software Engineering Listed on ServiceNow’s official careers site. Posted October 14, 2026. Check that it is still open and apply there. [Apply on ServiceNow’s careers site →](https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/ServiceNow/744000155584859-senior-staff-software-engineer) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) / [ServiceNow](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/servicenow/) / Senior Staff Software Engineer ## Job description The team Build Agent is ServiceNow's AI coding assistant, purpose-built for the platform's metadata-driven substrate - operating natively across ServiceNow's scoped applications, tables, and metadata types. This role leads the team responsible for the Build Agent evaluation framework, model support, and telemetry. The framework is critical to Build Agent success — it's already driven measurable wins: recovering Build Agent correctness, cutting latency and inference cost ahead of a major release, and catching high-severity defects that manual testing missed before they reached production. The team is 8 engineers and is currently the bottleneck on its own scale — this role exists to convert a high-performing initiative into a durable, scalable function. Key areas of focus include: Evaluation Infrastructure: Golden prompt sets, Pass@1 and functional scoring, failure categorization (plumbing vs. metadata-creation failures), and coverage across ServiceNow metadata types and UI workflows. ### Model Support & Benchmarking Structured evaluation of candidate foundation models against the production default, with failure-consistency analysis to separate scaffold/tuning issues from genuine capability gaps. ### Telemetry Token usage, cache efficiency, and inference cost tracked alongside correctness as first-class release signals. ### Cross-Team Arbitration Prioritizing eval coverage, defining what "good" means across surfaces owned by different contributing teams, and turning eval signal into committed fixes by the owning teams rather than open-ended findings. What you get to do in this role Own eval strategy and roadmap: prompt set design, scoring methodology, failure-mode taxonomy, and telemetry instrumentation. Coordinate across the multiple teams contributing to Build Agent to arbitrate quality standards and drive eval findings to committed, owned fixes — not just reports. Lead model benchmarking efforts, making data-backed recommendations on model support decisions (e.g., evaluating frontier coding models against the incumbent default). Solve ambiguous, cross-cutting problems where eval signal, model capability, and platform architecture intersect — and where "correct" isn't obvious until you've defined the bar. ## Qualifications Direct experience building or leading evaluation systems for LLM-based products — scoring methodology, benchmark design, and failure analysis, not just prompt engineering. ### Understanding of coding agent architecture tool use, agentic loops, context management, and the trade-offs between generic and domain-specific scaffolding. 6+ years of experience with technologies relevant to ServiceNow, including advanced coding skills and fluency in one or more of Java, C++, Ruby, Shell, or JavaScript. Experience critically evaluating foundation models — distinguishing real capability differences from tuning or scaffold artifacts. Ability to execute against ambiguous priorities, weighing context, risk, and desired outcomes — particularly where eval data is incomplete or contested. For positions in this location, we offer a base pay of $171,900 - $300,800, 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. ## At a glance - Posted by the employer: Oct 14, 2026 - First seen by OpenNash: Oct 17, 2026 - Last checked: Oct 17, 2026 - Listed for: 3 days - Location: San Diego, California, United States - Employment type: Full-time - Pay: $171,900 - $300,800[Apply on ServiceNow’s careers site →](https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/ServiceNow/744000155584859-senior-staff-software-engineer) ## More jobs at ServiceNow ### [Senior Manager, Software Engineering Management](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/servicenow/jobs/ae873827429c93213416/) San Diego, California, United States ### [Senior Software Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/servicenow/jobs/107a18eff54af81b841d/) San Diego, California, United States ### [Staff Software Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/servicenow/jobs/1330308250fe1f7ded6e/) San Diego, California, United States ### [Advisory Solution Consultant, Workflow Data Fabric and Intelligent Automation](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/servicenow/jobs/8b282ddd80225df325a1/) San Diego, California, United States ### [Director, Mobile Platform Engineering](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/servicenow/jobs/c66c64399a3bc838284e/) San Diego, California, United States ## Similar jobs at other companies ### [Senior/Staff Software Engineer with C++ - Drivers, Diagnostic, & Embedded Software (San Diego, CA)](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/philips/jobs/310f7de49f6c3cc3e408/) Philips · San Diego, California, United States ### [Staff Software Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/cardinal-health/jobs/b6243cd6f09fc50fb446/) Cardinal Health · International ### [Software Engineer Staff](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/lockheed-martin/jobs/d9130252972e507de227/) Lockheed Martin · Littleton, CO ### [Software Engineer Staff - E4](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/lockheed-martin/jobs/908af81cfa4d89f7ce8a/) Lockheed Martin · Orlando, FL ### [Staff Software Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/jones-lang-lasalle/jobs/0073e773eeb811935866/) Jones Lang LaSalle · Chicago, IL OpenNash lists jobs from employers’ own careers sites and does not handle applications. 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