Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Security

As a Senior Software Engineer at Snowflake, You Will

• 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.

Our Ideal Senior Software Engineer Will Have

• 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.

Bonus Points for the Following

• 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.