Senior Software Engineer, Security Platform Engineering

Where Data Does More. Join the Snowflake team.

The Security Platform Engineering team builds the systems and tooling that empower Snowflake security to keep Snowflake the most secure Data Cloud for our customers. We solve hard problems to supercharge our threat detection, incident response, and security analytics teams as Snowflake expands into new regions. 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 greenfielding new technologies!

In this role, you will design, build and support software solutions across a wide range of problem areas, including threat detection, threat intelligence, and incident response. You will have the opportunity to help set the direction for our security platform used by the teams keeping Snowflake secure. 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.

• Lead and deliver high-impact and high-visibility projects to supercharge Snowflake's security operations

• Design, implement, and maintain security platforms and tooling for global security functions, including detection engines, threat intelligence platforms, and security and compliance automation

• Collaborate with security data analytics teams on design and maintenance of data infrastructure, including data ingestions, data RBAC, governance, discoverability, and validation systems on the Snowflake Data Cloud

• Contribute and maintain open source projects such as SnowAlert and GEFF, in-use by major Snowflake customers

• Develop proof-of-concepts with external security partners to drive internal innovation

• Collaborate with junior and senior technical staff across Snowflake to advance and lead security goals

• Demonstrative ability to architect and deliver reliable and performant software projects, including evaluating technologies and trade-offs to fulfill stakeholder requirements and team goals

• Experience with designing and building data intensive systems

• Demonstrative ability to maintain a high degree of operational readiness for services, ensuring high reliability, availability and performance.

• Demonstrative ability to mentor junior engineers, and collaborate closely with senior engineers

• Demonstrative ability to collaborate with a variety of stakeholders in a dynamic environment and adapt quickly to changes

• Fluency in Python and SQL

• Experience with Bazel, dbt, Gitlab CI/CD, Terraform

• Experience with Snowflake Data Cloud features, such as Snowpark and Streamlit

• Experience with collaborating with security data analysts, and tactical security practitioners

This position may require access to data that is subject to legal access restrictions. Employment in this role is subject to legal restrictions and is contingent on Snowflake verifying that the candidate may legally access the required data, which may include, but is not limited to, U.S. export-controlled technologies and technical data as well as various forms of government data subject to U.S. federal and state laws and regulations. Time is of the essence to fill this role, and Snowflake may choose not to pursue an export control license or other requirements.

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.

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

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

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $198,000 - $303,600.
• 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.