Senior Security Engineer - Product Security
Role Overview
This senior-level role involves designing and implementing security solutions to enhance Snowflake's product security, focusing on building platforms that streamline security services for developers. The engineer will work with engineering and security teams to create secure-by-default systems, detect vulnerabilities, and leverage data to drive security outcomes, aiming to build a world-class security experience. Responsibilities include developing threat models, reviewing designs, and working in a multi-cloud environment to ensure robust security across modern software.
Perks & Benefits
The position is fully remote, offering flexibility in location, with likely expectations to align with team time zones for collaboration. Snowflake emphasizes a culture of innovation, impact, and collaboration, providing opportunities for career growth in a fast-growing company. Benefits include a focus on developer empathy, diverse team backgrounds, and challenging the status quo, with competitive salary and benefits details available on their careers site for U.S. locations.
Full Job Description
Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level.
In this position you are expected to design, plan, and implement solutions that improve and verify the security posture of Snowflake products. Projects focus on building a platform that makes it easy to deploy and maintain security services, unifying security experience for developers, increasing developer autonomy as it pertains to security, detecting security vulnerabilities, secure-by-default solutions, and leveraging data to drive security outcomes. We hold a special emphasis on building with software engineering best practices (documentation, testing, observability, etc). The ultimate goal is to build a world-class security experience for developers in Snowflake.
Responsibilities
Design, plan, and implement features and projects that enable Snowflake systems remain secure-by-default
Build services and libraries to increase developer productivity as it pertains to security, leveraging data to drive outcomes
Work alongside engineering and security teams, provide expert leadership and advice on secure architecture, design, and implementation
Create and scale security products and services with high developer empathy
Secure modern software and technologies running in a multi-cloud environment
Required Skills
Ability to develop threat models and review design documents from the security perspective
Empathy and advocacy for developer experience. We don't tell developers what not to do, we show them how to do it safely, ideally by default
Experience with finding bugs in software written in a variety of languages such as Java, C++ JavaScript, Go, and Python
Ability to work collaboratively and communicate clearly with engineering and other cross-functional stakeholders on product launches, security issues and other initiatives
Ability to lead with data and scalable solutions in everything you do
Experience with designing and implementing distributed software systems with robust APIs (gRPC, REST, etc)
Preferred Skills
Experience with production service development in Go
Ability to write, debug and optimize SQL queries
Understanding and properly applying software algorithms and data structures
Experience with Kubernetes and Infrastructure-as-code (terraform, pulumi, etc)
Experience with building scalable and concurrent web applications
Why you should work with us
We are a forward thinking team that likes to challenge the status quo, and are unafraid to be creative in our approaches to scaling security
Security is paramount to Snowflake customers, and we’re determined to hold ourselves to the highest standards
We pride ourselves on attracting a team with diverse backgrounds and skills
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
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