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Senior Staff Platform Engineer - Federal
Servicenow INC · 🇺🇸 San Diego, CALIFORNIA, US
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 547 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 185 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Servicenow INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles162 certified filings for “Senior Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in CA: $144k–$204k, median $175k. Most were filed at wage level IV (45%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 547 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 185 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Position Location: This is a Flexible (Hybrid) position. Flexible positions require 2 days per week in a ServiceNow office location. We have offices in several locations, including San Francisco, CA; Pleasanton, CA; Santa Clara, CA; San Diego, CA Please Note: This position will include supporting our US Regulated Markets. “This position requires passing a ServiceNow background screening, USFedPASS (US Federal Personnel Authorization Screening Standards). This includes a credit check, criminal/misdemeanor check and taking a drug test. Any employment is contingent upon passing the screening. Due to Federal requirements, only US citizens, US naturalized citizens or US Permanent Residents, holding a green card, will be considered. Team Overview The Data Platform group builds highly scalable, high‑performance platform capabilities for data‑in‑motion and backend storage systems. Our customers operate at massive scale, pushing the boundaries of data volume, throughput, and concurrency. We are looking for a seasoned IC5 Senior Staff Engineer with deep expertise in distributed systems and Data Lake architectures to drive next‑generation platform innovation. Role Summary As an IC5 Senior Staff Engineer, you will architect and deliver large‑scale distributed platform components, lead complex technical initiatives, and define engineering best practices. You will bring strong leadership, hands-on engineering depth, and the ability to design and operate reliable, scalable, and high‑performance data systems. What you get to do in this role: • Architect, design, and build high‑performance distributed systems and platform components. • Build distributed systems data ingestion solutions with strong emphasis on scalability, quality, and operational excellence. • Deliver high‑quality, clean, modular, and reusable code while enforcing engineering best practices (code reviews, unit testing, automation, design reviews). • Build foundational libraries, frameworks, and tools focused on modularity, extensibility, configurability, and maintainability. • Collaborate across engineering teams to refine requirements and deliver end‑to‑end solutions. • Provide technical leadership for projects with significant complexity and risk. • Research, evaluate, and adopt new technologies that enhance platform capabilities. • Troubleshoot and diagnose complex production issues across distributed systems. To be successful in this role you have: • Experience leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into engineering work — whether using AI-powered coding and operational tooling, automating workflows, or reasoning about how AI changes the way software and infrastructure are built. • 12+ years of hands‑on engineering experience in distributed systems, data platforms, or large‑scale backend infrastructure with a Bachelor's degree; OR 8+ years with a Master's degree; OR 6+ years with a PhD OR equivalent work experience. Core Engineering Expertise • Strong fundamentals in distributed systems architecture, design patterns, and algorithms. • Deep programming expertise in Java, including JVM internals, memory models, and garbage collection. • Proven experience in JVM performance tuning, profiling, and diagnosing performance bottlenecks. • Deep programming expertise and hands-on experience working with Helm (charts authoring, templating, managing overlay layering across environments) • Strong understanding of concurrency, networking, sockets, OS internals, and performance optimization. • Hands-on experience building and operating large‑scale distributed systems. • Experience with relational databases such as Oracle, MySQL, or PostgreSQL. • Security systems, methods and protocols. Distributed Systems Expertise • Experie