# Staff Software Engineer – Compute Engineering

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. Join the Compute Engineering organization, which builds the scheduling, capacity, and performance systems that run our platform across private and public cloud. What you get to do in this role: Write and maintain software-defined, declarative infrastructure for compute at scale, with build systems, services, and automation that are specified, documented, and testable. Build and improve components of the compute scheduler and resource-management systems, including placement, prioritization, and preemption. Build tools for capacity data collec

- **Id**: 4294746
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/servicenow-staff-software-engineer-compute-engineering>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **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**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-14T00:08:50Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-14
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T00:41:53Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6669
- **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**: 40
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 19
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 166500
- **Max**: 291400
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 291400

## Technologies

- **Ansible** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Configuration Management** — Optional: no
- **DNS** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **ServiceNow** — Optional: no
- **SLURM** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **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: 2026-11-14T00:41:53Z

## 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**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 19
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T04:12:18Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 291400
- **Is top pay**: yes

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