What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Manager, Platform Cryptography Core Engineering position at ServiceNow?
Company Description
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.
Job Description
The Senior Software Engineering Manager – Crypto Core will lead the architecture, development, and delivery of enterprise-scale cryptographic services foundational to the security of our platform and applications. The role owns secure key management, certificate infrastructure, enterprise-wide encryption capabilities, credential and secrets management, and the client libraries and Kubernetes services that make it all secure, observable, and reliable.
This leader will partner cross-functionally with product, infrastructure, and information security teams to deliver secure-by-design services that are scalable, auditable, and built to meet the demands of a modern enterprise.
What you get to do in this role:
Manage product development activities
Work with product management, design, support and other dev teams to create high-quality solutions
Manage daily activities of the development team
Solve difficult and sometimes ambiguous problems
Manage departmental resources, staffing, mentoring, and enhancing and maintaining a best-of-class engineering team
Qualifications
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.
Deep knowledge of cryptography, PKI, key/secrets management, and distributed systems.
Proven success managing and scaling backend platform teams and services.
Experience with HSM technologies like Thales CipherTrustManager and PKI infrastructure like EJBCA
10+ years of experience with technologies relevant to SN and advanced coding skills with high-quality results.
Experience managing employees who require little oversight in completing assigned work
Experience providing direction, delegate assignments, and support to accomplish tasks with their team
Experience with open source tools and agile development environments
Fluency in one or more relevant programming language (Java, C++, Ruby. Shell, JavaScript)
Ability to understand broad concepts and use those concepts to understand and develop solutions for problems
Experience completing projects based on company priorities, context, risks and desired outcomes
Ability to understand and implement best practices and coding standards about role specific requirements (e.g. programming languages and tools, network design, functional design, algorithms, patterns, design and development, etc.).
Preferred:
Experience with Kubernetes, cloud-native stacks, and service mesh architecture.
Familiarity with Load Balancers, FIPS-compliant systems, and regulatory audit processes.
Experience building crypto gateways, proxies, or middleware layers for API security.
Proven success on cross-functional projects with diverse stakeholders
Salary : $188,000 - $328,000