# Principal Software Engineer

It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could do that for everyone-freeing people from busywork so they could focus on meaningful work. Today, ServiceNow is the AI control tower for business reinvention. Our ServiceNow AI platform brings together any AI, any data, and any workflow- helping 85% of the Fortune 500® work smarter, faster, and better. We're building an AI-native culture where technology and talent are unstoppable together. And we're just getting started. Join us to put AI to work for people. About the Team The Context Engine is ServiceNow’s platform for connecting enterprise data, knowledge graphs, and AI workloads into a single, governed context layer. We’re building the data infrastructure that AI agents and applications will depend on as enterprises move from pilots to production. Types of problems you’ll get to work on You’ll own the technical architecture of core components across the data lake (Iceberg, Polaris, Trino) and the Context Engine, taking them from early release to real adoption with customers. Your core focus are

- **Id**: 4045587
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/servicenow-principal-software-engineer-17>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Santa Clara, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T18:48:33Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T14:28:45Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7548
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Workflow & Process Automation (RPA, BPM), IT Service & Asset Management, AI Agents, Customer Support & Help Desk Software

## Company

- **Id**: 97
- **Name**: ServiceNow
- **Domain**: servicenow.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/servicenow>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SmartRecruiters

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 41
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 18
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 221200
- **Max**: 387100
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 387100

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **FastAPI** — Optional: no
- **gRPC** — Optional: no
- **Knowledge Graph** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LangChain** — Optional: no
- **LangGraph** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **Polaris** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **ServiceNow** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **Structured Outputs** — Optional: no
- **Trino** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T23:45:58Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 664 · green card filings: 278; Filings 12m: 664

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 18
- **Reasons**: conf:5, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 387100
- **Is top pay**: yes

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