Senior Software Engineer - Product Security Assurance

Software Engineer at Snowflake

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don't just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.

Build the future of the AI Data Cloud. Join the Snowflake team.

The Product Security Assurance team builds the security services that empower Snowflake engineers to bring the most secure Data Cloud to our customers. We solve the hard security problems so other Snowflake engineers don't have to. Security, reliability and quality are critical. We need smart engineers who can pick up and understand complex technical areas quickly – and who are enthusiastic about building new technologies!

In this role, you will design, build and support software solutions across a wide range of problem areas, including Vulnerability Management, Supply Chain Security, Cloud Security and Secure Defaults. You will have the opportunity to help set the direction for the security infrastructure used by engineers across the company. The systems you build must be highly-reliable and scale to match Snowflake's massive and distributed footprint.

We're scaling our team to help enable and accelerate Snowflake's 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?

As a software engineer at Snowflake, you will:

• Design, develop, and support critical security services, libraries and frameworks that are highly reliable and easy to use.
• Build high-quality and highly reliable software to meet the needs of a fast growing company in a multi-cloud environment.
• Analyze and understand reliability, performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them.
• Understand the security risks faced by Snowflake and our customers, and build solutions to mitigate them.
• Work with engineering teams from across Snowflake to build empathy and understand their needs.

Our ideal software engineer will have:

• 6+ years of relevant work experience in software development
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Fluency in Golang and/or Python
• High developer empathy, and make security the easy thing to do across our organization.
• Excellent problem solving skills, and strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
• Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc.
• Experience with design, implementation, testing, debugging and documentation.
• Ability to work on-site in our Menlo Park or Bellevue office.

Bonus points for experience with the following:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• Experience building and supporting highly reliable and scalable GRPC services
• Experience building and supporting developer facing libraries and services
• Experience with workload orchestration systems such as Kubernetes to deploy and operate services at scale
• Experience using infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform and Pulumi to manage production infrastructure
• Experience building secret management, key management, identity and related services
• Experience with AWS, Azure and GCP to build production services
• Ability to build scalable services that improve developer productivity and security in Golang

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company's confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company's data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.

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.

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

The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $200,000 - $287,500.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake's bonus and equity plan.

The successful candidate's starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location. This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending & health savings account; at least 12 paid holidays; paid time off; parental leave; employee assistance program; and other company benefits.

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