Staff Software Engineer

Company Description

It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could do that for everyone—freeing people from busywork so they could focus on meaningful work. Today, ServiceNow is the AI control tower for business reinvention. Our ServiceNow AI platform brings together any AI, any data, and any workflow— helping 85% of the Fortune 500® work smarter, faster, and better. We're building an AI-native culture where technology and talent are unstoppable together. And we're just getting started.

Join us to put AI to work for people.

Job Description

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Design System team, you will build and evolve the engineering surface of the design system: the theme system, the design tokens, and the tooling that lets engineers, designers, and product teams apply it correctly. You will work in close partnership with design and product counterparts, and your decisions will ripple across internal product teams and external customers, so systems thinking and a working command of accessibility are as important as your front-end craft.

Roles and responsibilities

• Evolve the theme system and its design token architecture, covering token taxonomy, platform transforms, theming APIs, and the guardrails that keep themes accessible.

• Engineer tooling that makes the design system easy to adopt: theme builders, linting and audit rules, codemods, Figma to code workflows, and local development aids.

• Build AI skills and tooling that put the design system to work for engineers, designers, and product partners, so prototypes and production code generate on-system by default.

• Partner closely with design system designers and product managers, weighing design intent, customer need, and engineering cost in every decision rather than optimizing for one.

• Trace the downstream impact of every change across consuming teams and customer instances, and manage versioning, deprecation, and breaking-change communication accordingly.

• Hold the system to WCAG 2.2 Level AA, including contrast, for...

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