Build the future of data.
Join the Snowflake team.
Snowflake is looking for an experienced, inquisitive and detail-oriented Software Engineer to contribute to the hardening of Snowflake’s serving, software and data infrastructure.
This work includes efforts to:
Analyze and manage software and data lifecycles
Identify, triage and systematically mitigate software supply chain and deployment risks
Identify control gaps and revise ways to increase the observability, reliability, efficiency of the Snowflake platform
Improve the security and governance stance
The role’s responsibilities include designing, reviewing and implementing key security, process and data controls and technologies, collaborating on engineering and business efforts across the company and growing into the engineering subject matter expert for all infra, security and governance controls related initiatives and requirements.
Success in this role will significantly contribute to the company’s success and enable our continued expansion into highly regulated markets and industries.
AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER, YOU WILL WORK ON PROJECTS SUCH AS:
Build out internal systems to handle service and data asset enrollment, capabilities, configuration, ownership and access management, classification, life cycle management features such as lineage, sharing/audiences, retention, deletion and regulation-compliant transformations
Develop software and data inventory systems supporting queries, various workflows, reporting and dashboards for internal clients across Engineering, Product, Security, Privacy, Governance, and Legal
Understand, register and secure the software and crypto supply chain
Instrument multi-cloud infrastructure to improve coverage on reliability, load/traffic and thread detection metrics
Contribute to the agent infra to address special needs on intrusion detection, security surveillance, egress control and behavioral analysis
Identify and mitigate host and container security risks
Understand, design and implement cryptography libraries and APIs, capable to be tailored to market-specific requirements such as FIPS 180-2/3
Develop approaches to provide access and privilege minimization, dynamic/on-the-fly group ACL management and privilege escalation tracking
AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER, YOU WILL:
Conduct technical and policy reviews to identify, rank and escalate potential risk concerns and own or contribute to mitigation strategies
Participate in the creation, review and implementation of technical security and compliance-related engineering requirements across multiple Engineering teams
Collaborate with the compliance operations team to document Snowflake practices around infra hardening, policy enforcement and controls to guide engineers and provide transparency to customers, prospects and other stakeholders
AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER:
You have a BS in Computer Science and/or equivalent experience
You have a minimum of 10 years of relevant software engineering experience
You understand how to diagnose and mitigate security and other control gaps, and what it takes to achieve and maintain security compliance in a cloud native environment
You want to be part of a team within a fast paced, high growth environment that values pragmatism and initiative
BONUS POINTS:
MS, PhD in Computer Science
Engineering experience in red teams, blue teams, threat analysis and associated controls
Experience in developing:
Forensics software, particularly in cloud computing environments
Static and heuristic analysis tools
Data classification
Linux-based host and network monitoring
Intrusion detection and prevention
Tailored DDos detection mitigation strategies
General perimeter defense, WAF, FW functionality
Experience in integrating with CSP APIs, e.
g.
AWS, Azure, GCP
The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:
The estimated base salary range for this role is $235,000 - $368,000.
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.
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?