Senior Software Engineer, Data Governance

Senior Software Engineer, Data Governance

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.

The Data Governance team builds services, systems, and product features to help our customers govern all their data assets through the full lifecycle within Snowflake. We provide fine-grained secure data access, data privacy guards, data lineage tracking, and auditability access. We leverage ML techniques across our product offerings to make the lives of Data Stewards easier.

• Work closely with Product Managers to drive projects from idea formulation to design and implementation
• Design and build data governance features
• Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills
• Make trade-offs to design the best system for Snowflake customers' needs
• Collaborate with engineers across teams to help deliver cross-functional initiatives

• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
• Fluency in Java required
• Experience with database fundamentals including working with SQL
• Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc.
• Some experience in database security or building data governance systems is a bonus
• BS in Computer Science or a related field;
  Masters or PhD preferred

• 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.
• 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.

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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.