Senior Staff Software Engineer - Platform Access Control
Job Description
Team:
The Platform Access Controls team is within the Platform Security Core Organization and owns ServiceNow's core authorization frameworks, including ACLs, Security Policies, Security Attributes, and Security Filters. We are responsible for validating identity and access for every transaction across the platform, helping ensure a secure-by-default experience. Our team consists of passionate, self-directed engineers who enjoy solving complex security challenges and building scalable security controls. We foster a highly collaborative culture across distributed teams, empowering individuals with the support, autonomy, and opportunities needed to grow and succeed.
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you’ll be a key technical leader in the Platform Access Controls group. You’ll set the architectural direction for the access control layer as it expands into securing AI Agent access across the product stack and raise the bar for engineering craftmanship across the organization.
What you get to do in this role:
• Set the technical vision and architecture strategy for the authorization platform, balancing long-term scalability and delivery objectives while maintaining a secure-by-default posture.
• Work on core Authorization frameworks that touch every part of the product, keeping it high-quality, reliable, secure and fast.
• Own features from design through delivery, turning business requirements into well-architected, cross-team solutions.
• Lead design and code reviews, championing access control best practices, performance, maintainability, and testability across multiple teams
• Implement software that is simple to use to allow customers, applications to extend and customize the functionality to meet their specific needs.
• Define comprehensive test strategies covering functional, regression, integration and performance testing
• Diagnose, resolve, root cause and mitigation plans for the hardest production issues across the security stack
• Mentor engineers at every level and raise the technical bar across the organization.
Requirements
Department: Engineering, Infrastructure and Operations
Function: Engineering
Experience Level: Not Applicable