Senior Software Engineer, DevOps - Moveworks
ServiceNow · Mountain View, CA
$143,200–$243,000from the description
Jul 15, 2026
Mountain View, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role centers on building and scaling cloud infrastructure and a developer platform, working across multiple cloud regions and environments. Day-to-day work involves designing AWS-based infrastructure, managing CI/CD pipelines with infrastructure-as-code tooling, operating Kubernetes clusters, and collaborating with security teams to harden the platform. It suits an experienced infrastructure engineer comfortable taking end-to-end ownership of complex, fast-moving initiatives.
Mid level · 3+ years · San Diego, CA · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 210 people in the San Diego, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 60–310
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $166,860 (middle half $131,418–$198,246). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The role sits at the boundary between cloud infrastructure engineering (building and scaling a developer platform, writing IaC, managing CI/CD pipelines) and systems/network operations (troubleshooting network issues, disaster recovery, security posture). It was classified as Software Developers (15-1252) because the primary deliverables — building CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code automation, and a developer platform — represent shipping software, not merely operating existing systems.
The tools section (Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Helm) is introduced with 'Comfortability with tools such as…' which is softer language, but it appears within the main Qualifications block alongside all other hard requirements, so all named tools are treated as required.
The 'etc.' qualifiers throughout (AWS security groups, IAM roles, ELBs, CloudFormation, 'and other cloud services'; Kubernetes, Istio, 'etc.') indicate these are representative examples of a broader required skill set, not an exhaustive closed list.
With only '3+ years of experience' stated and no title-level seniority modifier, this maps to Mid-level. The scope is meaningful but the experience bar is relatively low for a cloud/platform engineering role.
The posting references a San Diego headquarters but also mentions work personas (flexible, remote, required in office) without specifying which applies to this role — remote is set to false as the default given the ambiguity.
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