Senior Software Engineer

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI‑native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high‑trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact.

We look for low‑ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast‑moving environments and move with an experimental mindset—who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. Your role isn’t just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.

The Product Security team builds fundamental security systems that empower Snowflake engineers to deliver the most secure Data Cloud to our customers. We solve the hard security problems so that other engineers don’t have to.

• Design, develop, and scale software systems to help Snowflake developers build secure products in a multi‑cloud environment.
• Build and maintain security tools and define, monitor, enforce, and detect security policy violations.
• Implement tools and processes to increase developer autonomy and educate them on secure design and coding practices.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in software development with one or more of the following languages:
  JavaScript, Java, Python, C, C++, Go.
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills.

• Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Experience designing, building, testing, and maintaining reliable, scalable software solutions.
• Experience with secure software development lifecycle or security infrastructure, including but not limited to secret management systems, service identity, authentication and authorization.
• Experience deploying and operating services on Kubernetes.
• Experience building production services on AWS, Azure, or GCP.

For jobs located in the United States, salary and benefits information is available on the official Snowflake Careers Site.

This role is exempt from Ontario’s job posting requirements.

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 responsibility to keep customer information secure and confidential.