Senior Engineering Manager - AI Developer Products at ServiceNow
San Diego, CA
$171,900–$300,800from the description
Jul 22, 2026
San Diego, CA
Jul 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering leadership role responsible for building and operating distributed agentic systems that underpin AI-driven development tooling on the ServiceNow platform. The position spans technical strategy, architectural decision-making, and people leadership — managing engineering managers and engineers while defining frameworks for agent orchestration, evaluation, and large-scale infrastructure. Suits an experienced engineering leader with a strong background in distributed systems, Node.js/TypeScript, and Kubernetes.
Principal level · 8+ years · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 35 people in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 20–50
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $298,074 (middle half $224,695–$326,567). 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 (7)
This role has significant people-management scope — it explicitly involves leading and mentoring engineering managers and software engineers, managing staffing, career development, and succession planning — which points to 11-3021. However, the JD also demands deep hands-on technical expertise (Node.js, TypeScript, Kubernetes, distributed systems architecture), making 15-1252 a genuine runner-up.
The 3+ years of engineering leadership experience is a separate gate from the 8+ years of overall software engineering experience; the overall years minimum is set to 8 (the broader role-level requirement).
Node.js, TypeScript, Kubernetes, and distributed systems are explicitly marked 'must' in the qualifications section. Framework design and infrastructure design experience are also marked 'must' but name no specific tool, so they are not emitted as skills.
Java is listed in the qualifications section without 'must' language and without a years demand, so it is treated as preferred.
Event-driven architecture, messaging systems, caching, cloud-native, DevOps/SRE, agentic systems, AI frameworks, telemetry, open-source, and agile all appear either in a secondary context or under the 'Preferred' heading.
The compensation range ($171,900–$300,800/year) is stated as a base pay guideline for a specific location; equity and variable compensation are also offered but not quantified.
No specific office location is named beyond ServiceNow's general distributed work model; the CBSA is inferred from ServiceNow's headquarters in Santa Clara, CA. The work persona policy suggests this is not fully remote.
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