Senior Software Engineer, Trust & Platform Security

About the role

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. We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer for our Trust Center team. This team is building the next generation of Data Exfiltration Protection (DXP) and unified Data Movement Policies (DMP) for Snowflake's cloud security infrastructure. You will work at the intersection of security policy and system enforcement, helping ensure that perimeter controls are robust, scalable, and deeply integrated with context-aware access frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement core components of the Data Movement Policy (DMP) framework, supporting complex multi-cloud and hybrid environments
• Build and enhance Data Exfiltration Protection capabilities, including ingress and egress controls and anomaly detection for data movement
• Contribute to the effort to unify Context-Aware Access policies with egress perimeter controls into a cohesive policy engine
• Author and review design documents for DMP and Perimeter Policy features, with a focus on reliability, low latency, and auditability
• Partner with Product Management and peer engineers to translate product requirements into well-scoped engineering deliverables
• Mentor junior engineers on the team and drive high standards for code quality, testing, and security-first development practices
• Own end-to-end delivery of features from design through production deployment

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with meaningful exposure to infrastructure or security systems
• Strong understanding of network security fundamentals (TLS/SSL, HTTP/S, DNS), Zero Trust principles, or Data Loss Prevention (DLP) concepts
• Proven ability to design and build distributed systems in Java, Go, or C++
• Experience working with cloud-native security controls in AWS, GCP, or Azure (e.g., VPC Service Controls, Private Link), or equivalent experience
• Comfort working independently on complex technical problems while collaborating closely with cross-functional partners

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

Skills

• Experience with content-aware or identity-driven data governance systems
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows and tooling
• Prior work on egress control, network perimeter enforcement, or policy engine design
• Contributions to open-source security projects or published security research

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