Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience — Moveworks at ServiceNow
Mountain View, CA
$166,500–$291,400from the description
Jul 16, 2026
Mountain View, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A staff-level backend engineering role focused on building the developer platform that external developers use when creating integrations and workflows on top of an agentic AI assistant. Day-to-day work spans designing SDKs, APIs, runtime abstractions, and developer tooling, with ownership over platform primitives that other teams and products depend on. Suits an experienced platform or infrastructure engineer with strong distributed systems fundamentals and a track record of shipping general-purpose, developer-facing infrastructure at scale.
Staff level · 8+ years · San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 3,050 people in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,100–3,950
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $190,744 (middle half $167,095–$224,501). 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)
Location is not explicitly stated in the posting beyond referencing San Diego (ServiceNow HQ) and a general US pay range. Moveworks is headquartered in Mountain View, CA; the CBSA is estimated as San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA. The role may be eligible for flexible/remote work per ServiceNow's work persona policy, but the posting does not confirm fully remote — remote is set to false.
Python and Go are listed together as 'Python and/or Go (or equivalent)' under the required qualifications; Go is captured as an alternative to Python.
API design, service reliability, fault tolerance, and observability are called out as required distributed systems fundamentals — these are captured under 'distributed systems' and 'REST' rather than as separate generic concepts, since no specific tooling is named.
LLMs, agentic systems, and AI-assisted development tooling appear only under the 'Nice to Have' section.
No specific degree is required; the JD states no degree requirement at all.
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