Software Engineer (Java, Linux/Shell Scripting)

It all started in sunny San Diego, California in 2004 when a visionary engineer, Fred Luddy, saw the potential to transform how we work. Fast forward to today — ServiceNow stands as a global market leader, bringing innovative AI-enhanced technology to over 8,100 customers, including 85% of the Fortune 500®. Our intelligent cloud-based platform seamlessly connects people, systems, and processes to empower organizations to find smarter, faster, and better ways to work. But this is just the beginning of our journey. Join us as we pursue our purpose to make the world work better for everyone.

Team Overview:

The AI Search Operations Team is responsible for the day-to-day operations, stability and continuous improvement of ServiceNow AI Search as the enterprise search engine. In addition to platform operations, the team owns the application workflow development required to support, extend and automate AI Search–related use cases across the ServiceNow ecosystem.

The team ensures that AI Search delivers consistent, accurate and reliable search experiences while enabling business workflows through custom and out-of-the-box ServiceNow workflows.

What you get to do in this role:

• Operate and support ServiceNow AI Search as a critical enterprise platform capability.
• Monitor platform health, performance, and availability of AI Search services.
• Handle incident management, problem resolution, and operational support.
• Own application workflow development related to AI Search use cases.
• Design, build and maintain application workflows related to cloud infrastructure.
• Build automation for provisioning, lifecycle management and decommissioning workflows
• Collaborate with application development teams to onboard new enhancements.
• Manage enhancements, defect fixes, and continuous improvements in alignment with business priorities.
• Ensure operational readiness, scalability, and compliance with enterprise standards.

To be successful in this role you have:

• Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI's potential impact on the function or industry.
• Experience in using AI Productivity tools such as Cursor, Windsurf, etc. is a plus or nice to have
• 2 to 4 years of experience with Java or a similar OO language
• Passion for JavaScript and the Web as a platform, reusability, and componentization
• Experience with data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, design patterns, and performance/scale considerations
• Experience with Linux or Shell Scripting
• Analytical and design skills
• Working knowledge and ability to use tools to assist with daily tasks (IDE, debugger, build tools, source control, ServiceNow instances, profilers, system administration/Unix tools)

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