Sr Software Engineer, Platform Cryptography at ServiceNow

Department: Engineering, Infrastructure and OperationsSeniority in posting: other

Compensation · Listed in posting

$128,900 – $219,100/yr

Setup: Hybrid
Location: San Diego, California
Type: Full-time
Level: senior
Posted: Oct 2, 2026

Description

ServiceNow is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Core Cryptography to design and operate secure cryptographic services for a large-scale multi-tenant SaaS platform. The role covers key management, PKI, certificate lifecycle, secrets distribution, FIPS-compliant cryptography, anomaly detection, inference pipelines, Kubernetes operations, secure code review, and regulated-environment security. Candidates need at least four years of production software engineering experience, strong distributed-systems and cryptographic knowledge, and hands-on experience with Kubernetes in a SaaS environment. Base pay is $128,900 to $219,100 plus equity, variable compensation, and benefits.

Required Skills

Java
Go
Kubernetes
PKI
Secrets management
Anomaly detection
FIPS compliance
Distributed systems

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: At least 4 years of professional software engineering experience
Hands-on experience deploying and operating services on Kubernetes in a SaaS or multi-tenant environment
Direct experience with cryptography, PKI, key management, or secrets management systems
Experience building distributed backend systems using microservices and SQL or NoSQL data stores
Exposure to regulated environments such as FIPS 140-2/3 or FedRAMP
Preferred Qualifications: Applied machine learning or AI exposure, including anomaly detection, classification, or integrating AI tooling into engineering workflows
Working knowledge of core cryptographic primitives, including symmetric and asymmetric encryption, hashing, digital signatures, and PKI/TLS fundamentals