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ServiceNow · Hyderabad, India

# Sr Staff Software Engineer

Hyderabad, India Full-time Senior individual contributor Software Engineering 

Listed on ServiceNow’s official careers site. Posted August 18, 2026. Check that it is still open and apply there.
[Apply on ServiceNow’s careers site →](https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/ServiceNow/744000144064119-sr-staff-software-engineer)

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## Job description

### Position Overview

ServiceNow is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Staff Software Engineer to help lead a team with a broad portfolio across the application lifecycle. The team owns key parts of a platform that lets customers author, build, and run custom applications at scale; works on a broader initiative modernizing how applications are distributed, licensed, and installed platform-wide; and helps maintain established backend systems that the broader platform depends on.

This is a polyglot environment — strong Java proficiency is essential alongside modern JavaScript/TypeScript web application and backend service technologies.

### This role requires both technical depth and leadership

setting direction across multiple concurrent initiatives while staying deeply hands-on, and negotiating technical boundaries with partner engineering teams on larger, cross-organizational efforts.

### Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership across the team's portfolio of projects while staying deeply hands-on — setting direction and reviewing design, and also directly building, debugging, and shipping critical pieces yourself
- Diagnose and resolve complex, customer-impacting problems across established backend systems
- Champion engineering best practices and security standards across a varied technology footprint
- Bring sound judgment on where and how AI fits into the team's development workflow, and set guardrails for AI-assisted development
- Mentor engineers across the team's different technology areas, and foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement

## Qualifications

### Qualifications

Experience leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into engineering work — whether using AI-powered coding and operational tooling, automating workflows, or reasoning about how AI changes the way software and infrastructure are built. - 12+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with a strong track record delivering high-scale, cloud-based systems
- Deep proficiency in Java — hands-on experience designing, building, and maintaining production Java services, plus the ability to confidently read, debug, and modify complex, unfamiliar Java codebases
- Working proficiency in TypeScript/Node.js or similar modern web/backend stacks
- Strong understanding of concurrency and resource management for services operating at scale
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and service-to-service protocol design (e.g., gRPC/protobuf)
- Deep experience with authentication and session systems
- Proven experience leading and mentoring engineers, and negotiating technical scope across team boundaries
- Experience with Kubernetes-based service deployment is a plus
- Familiarity with large-scale, multi-tenant SaaS platforms is a strong plus
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, including cross-organizational technical negotiation
- Track record of applying AI to hard platform-engineering problems

## At a glance
- Posted by the employer: Aug 18, 2026
- First seen by OpenNash: Oct 10, 2026
- Last checked: Oct 10, 2026
- Listed for: 53 days
- Location: Hyderabad, India
- Employment type: Full-time[Apply on ServiceNow’s careers site →](https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/ServiceNow/744000144064119-sr-staff-software-engineer)

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