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Job Description
Seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Workflow Data Fabric, Integration Hub team in Hyderabad. This role is for a strong backend engineer who owns significant components end to end, drives technical design for integration and protocol capabilities used by thousands of customers, and raises the engineering bar for the team. Prior ServiceNow experience is a plus but not required; we expect the ability to ramp quickly on the platform.
Technical Skills Required:
- Expert-level Java or JavaScript/Node.js, with deep engineering fundamentals: concurrency, memory management, performance profiling
- Design of REST/SOAP APIs and integration frameworks that other teams and customers build on
- In-depth knowledge of OAuth 2.0, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS) and API key authentication, including token lifecycle, credential storage and security hardening
- Distributed systems design: retries, idempotency, backpressure, rate limiting, circuit breaking and graceful degradation
- Data modeling, SQL and query optimization at scale, including indexing strategy and diagnosing slow queries in production
- Observability: logging, metrics and tracing designed in from the start so failures are diagnosable
- Automated testing (unit, integration, contract and performance) and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline design
- ServiceNow platform scripting (Glide APIs, Script Includes, Business Rules, Scripted REST APIs) and Flow Designer spoke development, or the ability to ramp on these quickly
Key Responsibilities:
- Own a feature area or component end to end: technical direction, design, build, test, documentation, release and post-release health
- Author and review design documents for integration and protocol interfaces that customers can extend and customize without forking the product
- Define versioning and backward compatibility strategy for public contracts, and guard it in design and code reviews
- Design for failure and scale: rate limits, timeouts, partial responses, unavailable remote systems, high throughput and long-running operations, with failure modes that are explicit rather than silent
- Lead investigation of complex, escalated customer integration failures spanning the platform, the network and the remote system, and drive fixes at root cause along with preventive changes
- Identify and pay down technical debt, performance bottlenecks and reliability risks in your area
- Mentor IC1 and IC2 engineers through design reviews, code reviews and pairing, and set quality standards for tests and documentation
- Collaborate with product management, user experience, quality engineering and adjacent platform teams to shape scope and sequence delivery
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of owning backend systems or services in production
- Expert-level Java or JavaScript/Node.js and strong computer science fundamentals
- Demonstrated experience designing, consuming and debugging integrations against third-party systems you don't control, including handling of undocumented or inconsistent behavior
- Strong working knowledge of OAuth 2.0, JWT, mutual TLS and API key authentication flows, and the security trade-offs between them
- Experience designing APIs or extension points with backward compatibility and versioning requirements
- Proven debugging and root-cause analysis across system boundaries in production environments
- Data modeling, SQL and query optimization for large datasets
- Automated testing as part of your own delivery, and experience improving test strategy for a team
- Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical design discussions
- Agile, sprint-based development experience
- Clear written communication, including design documents and technical decision records
Good to Have (top priority when comparing candidates)
- Protocol-level work: JSON-RPC, WebSockets, Server-Sent Events, streaming or long-lived connections, including connection lifecycle and resilience
- Experience deploying to AWS EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
- Model Context Protocol (MCP), tool or function calling, agent-facing API design
- Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) / Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) drivers, database connectivity, or query engine internals
- Experience building platform or developer-facing products (SDKs, connectors, integration frameworks)
- React or a comparable frontend framework
Work Personas
We approach our distributed world of work with flexibility and trust. Work personas (flexible, remote, or required in office) are categories that are assigned to ServiceNow employees depending on the nature of their work and their assigned work location. Learn more here. To determine eligibility for a work persona, ServiceNow may confirm the distance between your primary residence and the closest ServiceNow office using a third-party service.
Equal Opportunity Employer
ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements.
Accommodations
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Skills Required
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with ownership of backend systems or production services
- Expert-level Java or JavaScript/Node.js and strong computer science fundamentals
- Experience designing, consuming, and debugging integrations with third-party systems
- Working knowledge of OAuth 2.0, JWT, mutual TLS, and API key authentication
- Experience designing APIs or extension points with backward compatibility and versioning requirements
- Production debugging and root-cause analysis across system boundaries
- Data modeling, SQL, and query optimization for large datasets
- Automated testing and experience improving team test strategy
- Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical design discussions
- Agile, sprint-based development experience
- Clear written communication, including design documents and technical decision records
- Protocol-level experience with JSON-RPC, WebSockets, Server-Sent Events, streaming, or long-lived connections
- Experience deploying to AWS EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, or Google Kubernetes Engine
- Model Context Protocol, tool or function calling, or agent-facing API design experience
- JDBC, ODBC, database connectivity, or query engine internals experience
- Experience building platform or developer-facing products, SDKs, connectors, or integration frameworks
- React or a comparable frontend framework
What the Team is Saying
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as robust, with multiple medical plan options, strong dental/vision, and access to mental-health resources. Feedback suggests the breadth and quality of healthcare offerings are standout aspects of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible PTO, paid holidays, company-wide wellbeing days, and paid volunteer time are emphasized. Feedback suggests these options provide meaningful flexibility and support for time away.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is a notable part of total rewards, including RSUs and an employee stock purchase plan with a purchase discount. Feedback suggests these programs meaningfully enhance total compensation.
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What We Do
As the AI platform for business transformation, we're putting AI to work across organizations — freeing people for work that matters. Making old tech work with new tech. Reaching across departments, from the front office to the back office and every office in between. Our ambition? To become the AI defining enterprise software company of the 21st century (or "AI DESCO21C," as we like to call it). With more than 8,400+ customers, we serve approximately 90% of the Fortune 500®, and we're proud to be a Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® and World's Most Admired Companies™. Explore your future career with us, visit www.careers.servicenow.com From Fortune. ©2026 Fortune Media IP Limited. All rights reserved. Used under license.
Why Work With Us
By joining ServiceNow, you are part of an ambitious team of change-makers who have a restless curiosity and a drive for ingenuity. We're committed to helping our people do their best work and live their best lives so we can fulfill our purpose together. At the fastest-growing enterprise software company, you can grow your career faster.
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