Principal Software Engineer – Compute Engineering

How the pay compares

ServiceNow advertises $221,200 to $387,100 a year, a midpoint of $304,150 a year. Where an offer lands in a range usually depends on experience and on the exact location. That is higher than about 90% of the 1,245 software & IT jobs in California that publish a yearly rate on USA Jobs 24, where the typical midpoint is $214,000 a year. To see roughly what this leaves after federal and California tax, try our take-home pay calculator.

Skills in this advert

How often each skill named in this advert appears across the 4,388 software & IT jobs we list today. Python is the most widely requested (30% of jobs), while Terraform is the least common (6%). Widely requested skills are what employers expect as a baseline; rarer ones show what is special about this job.

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Before you apply

1. Hybrid. Based in Santa Clara, CA. Ask how many days a week you would be expected in the office.
2. Experience. The advert asks for at least 15 years.
3. Resume. The advert's own words include Microservices, Kubernetes and Python. Use them wherever they are true for you.

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About hiring at ServiceNow

ServiceNow has 100 openings on USA Jobs 24 today across 12 states. Most are in software & IT (39), sales & BD (22) and data & AI (21). The biggest locations are Santa Clara, CA (26), San Diego, CA (20) and Mountain View, CA (12). 44% of them are remote, 13% are open to entry-level candidates and 80% show pay. We collect ServiceNow's jobs every day straight from its own careers system (SmartRecruiters), never from job boards or agencies.

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