CareerPlan

Staff Application Security Engineer (ServiceNow Instance Security)

Santa Clara, California, usFull-time$176k2026-09-02 → 2026-11-11

Core

Secure ServiceNow instances by identifying configuration-driven security risks, validating customer-reported findings, and driving actionable remediation guidance.

Role type

Staff Application Security Engineer (ServiceNow Instance Security)

Builds

Prescriptive instance-hardening guidance, security baselines, and systemic improvements for customer configurations.

Domain

SaaS / Cloud Security / ServiceNow Platform

Required skills

Application security expertise, threat modeling, secure design principles, code reading/debugging, risk translation, AI integration in workflows

Preferred skills

ServiceNow platform security, SaaS security posture management, customer security findings support, cross-functional influence

Technologies

ServiceNow platform, AI-powered tools

Responsibilities

Assess ServiceNow instance configurations against security baselines, develop prescriptive hardening guidance, triage and validate customer-reported security findings, partner with Product Security and Engineering teams, drive systemic improvements for recurring misconfigurations

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence