Senior Software Engineer (Cloud Security)

• We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer for our Cloud Security team. This team reduces risk to Snowflake at scale through software-defined controls rather than one-off fixes, building the platforms and pipelines that make entire classes of problems go away

• You won’t just find problems; you’ll ship the systems that improve and verify the security posture of Snowflake products across 600+ million assets and three cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP), with a growing focus on using AI to reason over posture data at a scale humans can’t

• Build solutions and services that operate, protect, and govern our security posture across 600+ million assets and three clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP)

• Automate security controls across cloud environments, including core primitives: IAM, detection and monitoring, configuration management, and data protection

• Build real-time security monitoring, logging, and alerting, using Snowflake technologies to make Snowflake more secure

• Define and maintain security baselines, policies, and standards for public cloud platforms

• Design and operate continuous, AI-augmented pipelines that ingest posture and telemetry across hundreds of millions of assets, score risk, and automatically surface the highest-impact issues

• Own security workstreams end to end and raise the engineering bar through design reviews, mentorship, and technical guidance for the team

• Bring software engineering best practices to security work: documentation, testing, and observability, because a control you can’t test, monitor, or reason about isn’t a control

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance plans

• Health savings accounts

• Robust retirement plans

• Life and disability insurance

• Weekly online lunch and learns

• Virtual workout classes

• Ergonomic work-from-home equipment

• On-demand mental health and wellness programs

• Fertility benefits and family planning resources

• Generous time-off and various leave plans

• Onsite and Remote Work

• Employee discounts and pre-tax selections

• New hire equity + Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

• Quarterly bonus or commission program- Experience building software in one or more languages such as Java, C++, Go, or Python

• A commitment to data-driven, scalable decision-making that holds up over time

• Experience designing and owning secure, large-scale systems, with working knowledge of secure architecture principles and threat modeling

• 5+ years of software engineering experience preferred, or equivalent experience

• A passion for developer experience: making security the default rather than a restriction

• Strong collaboration and communication skills across engineering and cross-functional stakeholders

• Familiarity with distributed architectures and building scalable APIs (e.g., gRPC, REST)

• Experience applying AI/ML to security problems (detection, risk scoring, prioritization) and building the data pipelines that feed them

• A strong grasp of algorithms and data structures applied to complex problems

• Proficiency writing, debugging, and optimizing SQL for data-driven security operations, as a supporting capability

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and IaC (Terraform, Pulumi)

• Experience designing scalable, concurrent, resilient services for high-demand, multi-cloud environments