Staff Software Engineer - Product Security at ServiceNow

About the Role

ServiceNow’s Product Security organization is building a dedicated Security R&D function, creating a software engineering team focused on security capabilities with the same engineering rigor as ServiceNow’s product organization. We are looking for a Staff Security Engineer to be a core contributor on this team.

Key Responsibilities

• →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 security automation by integrating in-house models and third-party services into production workflows.
• →Leverage ServiceNow’s platform — Agent Framework runtime, ACL enforcement, data layer, and workflow engine — to create security capabilities that external vendors cannot match.
• →Work closely with the AI Security Research team on tooling for AI agent security, translating research insights into production-grade engineering.
• →Partner with product engineering teams during open contribution engagements, earning trust through code quality, reliability, and delivery.
• →Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and architecture discussions, contributing to the team’s technical standards and engineering culture.
• →Help define engineering best practices as a founding member of the Security R&D team.
• →Contribute to hiring and onboarding as the team scales, helping maintain the engineering bar.
• →Stay current on emerging AI/ML technologies and security threats, bringing new ideas into the team’s roadmap.