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At a glance
ServiceNow is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer – Compute Engineering in Santa Clara, CA. It is a full-time hybrid role in Software & IT, asking for at least 12 years of experience. The advertised pay is $190,900–$334,100 a year. The description mentions Microservices, Kubernetes, Python, Java, Terraform and Azure. ServiceNow has 99 other openings in the US, 25 of them in Santa Clara, CA. Across all employers on USA Jobs 24 there are 199 Software & IT openings in Santa Clara, CA today; the typical one asks for 8 years and advertises about $192,000 a year at the midpoint.
MicroservicesKubernetesPythonJavaTerraformAzureAWSGoogle Cloud
How the pay compares
ServiceNow advertises $190,900 to $334,100 a year, a midpoint of $262,500 a year. Where an offer lands in a range usually depends on experience and on the exact location. That is higher than about 79% 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.
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- Hybrid. Based in Santa Clara, CA. Ask how many days a week you would be expected in the office.
- Experience. The advert asks for at least 12 years.
- 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.
From ServiceNow's advert
Join the Compute Engineering organization, which builds the scheduling, capacity, and performance systems that run our platform across private and public cloud.
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