Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Security

About the role

The Cloud Security 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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience preferred, or equivalent experience
• Experience designing and owning secure, large-scale systems, with working knowledge of secure architecture principles and threat modeling
• A passion for developer experience: making security the default rather than a restriction
• Experience building software in one or more languages such as Java, C++, Go, or Python
• Familiarity with distributed architectures and building scalable APIs (e.g., gRPC, REST)
• Strong collaboration and communication skills across engineering and cross-functional stakeholders
• A commitment to data-driven, scalable decision-making that holds up over time

Preferred skills

• Experience applying AI/ML to security problems (detection, risk scoring, prioritization) and building the data pipelines that feed them
• Proficiency writing, debugging, and optimizing SQL for data-driven security operations, as a supporting capability
• A strong grasp of algorithms and data structures applied to complex problems
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and IaC (Terraform, Pulumi)
• Experience designing scalable, concurrent, resilient services for high-demand, multi-cloud environments

Why join this team

Our work centers on a platform that makes security easy to deploy and maintain: unifying the developer security experience, increasing developer autonomy, detecting vulnerabilities before they ship, and delivering secure-by-default solutions. A growing part of that is using AI to turn raw posture signal into prioritized action at a scale humans can't match. If you want to build the systems that make entire classes of security problems disappear, and deliver a world-class security experience for developers at Snowflake, this is the team.

Pay

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.

Benefits

• 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
• Other company benefits