ServiceNow
Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer - DevOps
Santa Clara, CALIFORNIA, United States · Staff+ · Contract
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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$20,074 more — $221,374 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $221,374 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis.
- Today, ServiceNow is the AI control tower for business reinvention.
- What you get to do in this role: Please note that this role requires you to be in our Santa Clara office for two days per week.
Responsibilities
- That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could do that for everyone-freeing people from busywork so they could focus on meaningful work.
- We're building an AI-native culture where technology and talent are unstoppable together.
- You will own the end-to-end inference lifecycle-from onboarding cutting-edge models to deploying optimized inference engines in production across multiple backends on Kubernetes infrastructure.
- Expertise in Go or Python, OOP, Design Patterns, time and space-efficient algorithms
- Experience building new products that use challenging algorithms
- Own observability for what you build - meaningful metrics, useful logs, real tracing, and alerts that fire on customer impact rather than on noise.
Compensation
- $201k-$352k
Benefits
- We are seeking a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer (DevOps) to lead the architecture, optimization, and operational excellence of our AI inference platform.
Company info
- We are a group of researchers, applied scientists, engineers, and product managers with a dual mission.
- Our ServiceNow AI platform brings together any AI, any data, and any workflow- helping 85% of the Fortune 500® work smarter, faster, and better.
- We build and evolve the AI platform, and partner with teams to build products and end-to-end AI-powered work experiences.
Equal opportunity
- ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or any other category protected by law.
- In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements.
- Accommodations
Visa & Work Authorization
- Export Control Regulations
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