Staff Software Engineer - Product Security

About the role

ServiceNow's Product Security organisation is building a dedicated Security R&D function, a software engineering team that builds security capabilities with the same engineering rigour as the product organisation. It is a new team being set up in Petah Tikva, Israel, co-located with the AI Security Research team, reporting to the Sr. Engineering Manager, Security R&D.

Key responsibilities

• Design and develop security tooling, automation and platform services at enterprise scale.
• Contribute code directly into ServiceNow product engineering codebases.
• Build AI-powered security automation by integrating in-house models and third-party services into production workflows.
• Use the ServiceNow platform (Agent Framework runtime, ACL enforcement, data layer, workflow engine) to build security capabilities.
• Work with the AI Security Research team on tooling for AI agent security.
• Partner with product engineering teams during open contribution engagements.
• Take part in design and code reviews and help define engineering best practices as a founding team member.

Required profile

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems at scale.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field.
• Strong hands-on experience with AI/ML pipelines, LLM integration and agentic frameworks.
• Solid foundation in distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.
• Interest in or exposure to security engineering concepts; deep security expertise can be developed on the team.
• Preferred: security tooling development, Kubernetes or cloud security, SaaS/multi-tenant platform experience, and experience in a globally distributed team.

Required skills

• Python and Java (hands-on, production code)
• Distributed systems and cloud-native architectures
• AI/ML pipelines, LLM integration and agentic frameworks
• Preferred: container/Kubernetes environments, infrastructure-as-code