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Principal Software Engineer
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
About Veza Veza is the identity security platform for human, non-human, and AI agent access. Customers use it to see who and what has access to what, govern it, and remediate risk across cloud, SaaS, and on-prem systems. Agent security is the inflection point. Static access reviews can't keep up with autonomous agents acting at machine speed. Security is shifting to continuous, real-time control: just-in-time access for agents, automated remediation of policy violations, and real-time governance of agent actions as they happen—replacing standing privileges and periodic reviews. Veza is in transition, growing quickly as part of ServiceNow's Security & Risk organization. The Chief Architect will shape how the platform scales to meet this new category. What you'll do • Own the end-to-end architecture of the Veza platform , including the access graph, ingestion pipeline, authorization and policy engine, and the services built on them. Lead the evolution toward a graph-native data model (Neo4j or equivalent) that scales to billions of relationships and complex permission hierarchies. Set the standards every team builds to. • Lead the next-generation data architecture. Evolve the core graph and storage model for order-of-magnitude growth in customers, entities, and relationships, with a clear migration path from today's system and no customer disruption. • Define the architecture for non-human identity and AI agent security. Make Veza the system of record for what agents can access, and design for governance, guardrails, and auditability. • Set the AI architecture for Veza's own agents and features : agentic patterns, evaluation, observability, cost and capacity planning, and a multi-vendor LLM strategy that avoids lock-in. • Modernize the integrations framework. Veza has 300+ integrations, and they drive a disproportionate share of support load. Establish a scalable, testable, self-service framework that raises reliability and cuts onboarding time. • Architect how Veza fits into ServiceNow. Veza is not built on the ServiceNow platform. Define the integration model, shared identity and data contracts, and UI surfacing patterns that deliver a unified customer experience without forcing a rewrite. • Drive deployment flexibility : multi-region SaaS, data residency, regulated-industry requirements (e.g., EU financial regulation such as DORA), and federal-grade deployment, including the compliance and operational constraints each brings. • Govern architecture across teams. Run architecture reviews, manage tech debt and the security backlog, and make clear, documented build-vs-buy and sequencing decisions. • Raise the bar on engineering practice , including heavy use of AI coding agents, automated testing coverage, defect escape reduction, and operational excellence with SRE. • Represent Veza's architecture to executives, customers, partners, and ServiceNow architecture and security leadership. • Mentor architects and senior engineers and build the next layer of technical leadership. What you bring Core • 15+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years as a staff/principal/chief architect, or equivalent, over a large multi-team platform. • Deep experience designing multi-tenant, cloud-native SaaS at enterprise scale: distributed systems, large-scale data and graph systems, APIs, and microservices. • Hands-on Kubernetes and cloud experience (AWS required; multi-cloud a plus) and modern DevOps, IaC, and SRE practices. • Strong background in graph databases and data structures. Hands-on experience with Neo4j, or similar graph platforms; understanding of immutable or event-sourced storage models and their operational trade-offs. • A track record of leading large architectural migrations in a live production system. • Experience