Software Engineer - Product Security Assurance
Role Overview
This mid-level software engineer role focuses on designing, building, and supporting critical security services, libraries, and frameworks for Snowflake's Product Security Assurance team. Day-to-day responsibilities include solving complex security problems in areas like Vulnerability Management, Supply Chain Security, and Cloud Security to ensure reliability and scalability across a multi-cloud environment. The hire will impact the security infrastructure used by engineers company-wide, enabling a secure Data Cloud for customers.
Perks & Benefits
The role is fully remote, offering flexibility with no explicit time zone restrictions, though collaboration with teams in Menlo Park or Bellevue may be expected. Benefits include opportunities for career growth in a fast-paced, innovative environment with a culture emphasizing impact and collaboration. While salary details are not provided, typical tech perks like competitive compensation and professional development are implied, along with a focus on building scalable, high-quality software.
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.
Build the future of the AI Data Cloud. Join the Snowflake team.
The Product Security Assurance team builds the security services that empower Snowflake engineers to bring the most secure Data Cloud to our customers. We solve the hard security problems so other Snowflake engineers don’t have to. 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 building new technologies!
In this role, you will design, build and support software solutions across a wide range of problem areas, including Vulnerability Management, Supply Chain Security, Cloud Security and Secure Defaults. You will have the opportunity to help set the direction for the security infrastructure used by engineers across the company. The systems you build must be highly-reliable and scale to match Snowflake’s massive and distributed footprint.
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.
How do you want to make your impact?
As a software engineer at Snowflake, you will:
Design, develop, and support critical security services, libraries and frameworks that are highly reliable and easy to use.
Build high-quality and highly reliable software to meet the needs of a fast growing company in a multi-cloud environment.
Analyze and understand reliability, performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them.
Understand the security risks faced by Snowflake and our customers, and build solutions to mitigate them.
Work with engineering teams from across Snowflake to build empathy and understand their needs.
OUR IDEAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:
3+ years of relevant work experience in software development
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
Fluency in Golang and/or Python
Show high developer empathy, and make security the easy thing to do across our organization.
Excellent problem solving skills, and strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc.
Experience with design, implementation, testing, debugging and documentation.
Ability to work on-site in our Menlo Park or Bellevue office.
BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING:
Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
Experience building and supporting highly reliable and scalable GRPC services
Experience building and supporting developer facing libraries and services
Experience with workload orchestration systems such as Kubernetes to deploy and operate services at scale
Experience using infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform and Pulumi to manage production infrastructure
Experience building secret management, key management, identity and related services
Experience with AWS, Azure and GCP to build production services
Ability to build scalable services that improve developer productivity and security in Golang
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
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