Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level.

In this position you are expected to design, plan, and implement solutions that improve and verify the security posture of Snowflake products. Projects focus on building a platform that makes it easy to deploy and maintain security services, unifying security experience for developers, increasing developer autonomy as it pertains to security, detecting security vulnerabilities, secure-by-default solutions, and leveraging data to drive security outcomes. We hold a special emphasis on building with software engineering best practices (documentation, testing, observability, etc). The ultimate goal is to build a world-class security experience for developers in Snowflake.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, plan, and implement features and projects that enable Snowflake systems remain secure-by-default

• Build services and libraries to increase developer productivity as it pertains to security, leveraging data to drive outcomes

• Work alongside engineering and security teams, provide expert leadership and advice on secure architecture, design, and implementation

• Create and scale security products and services with high developer empathy

• Secure modern software and technologies running in a multi-cloud environment

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Ability to develop threat models and review design documents from the security perspective

• Empathy and advocacy for developer experience. We don't tell developers what not to do, we show them how to do it safely, ideally by default

• Experience with finding bugs in software written in a variety of languages such as Java, C++ JavaScript, Go, and Python

• Ability to work collaboratively and communicate clearly with engineering and other cross-functional stakeholders on product launches, security issues and other initiatives

• Ability to lead with data and scalable solutions in everything you do

• Experience with designing and implementing distributed software systems with robust APIs (gRPC, REST, etc)

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• Experience with production service development in Go

• Ability to write, debug and optimize SQL queries

• Understanding and properly applying software algorithms and data structures

• Experience with Kubernetes and Infrastructure-as-code (terraform, pulumi, etc)

• Experience with building scalable and concurrent web applications

WHY YOU SHOULD WORK WITH US:

• We are a forward thinking team that likes to challenge the status quo, and are unafraid to be creative in our approaches to scaling security

• Security is paramount to Snowflake customers, and we’re determined to hold ourselves to the highest standards

We pride ourselves on attracting a team with diverse backgrounds and skills

Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

How do you want to make your impact?

For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com http://careers.snowflake.com