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Senior Software Engineer - Identity, Data Security and Trust

Snowflake Inc.· Engineering
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Hybrid (US-WA-Bellevue), Hybrid (US-CA-Menlo Park)$200k - $287.5kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer focused on building security backbone for Snowflake’s Identity, Data Security and Trust organization, including AI-native security capabilities, identity and access management, secret/key management, and platform-wide security tooling to enable secure, scalable data protection across a multi-cloud environment.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement critical AI security capabilities — including controlled, audited agent workflows, MCP server and client security, agent identity frameworks, and admin guardrails — that form the foundation for secure agentic enterprise adoption
  • Build and evolve foundational identity and access management systems, including authentication protocols, SSO integrations, multi-factor authentication, OAuth/OIDC, SAML, SCIM, and fine-grained RBAC that scales to millions of objects and users
  • Design and develop core security infrastructure spanning secret management, key management, service identity, and end-to-end encryption across a natively multi-cloud environment
  • Build and maintain security tooling to define, monitor, enforce, and detect policy violations across the platform; implement automation and self-service processes that increase developer autonomy and promote secure-by-default engineering
  • Design and implement extensible, plug-and-play platform components that enable first-, second-, and third-party security detectors, responders, and visualizations to be built on top of Snowflake's Trust Center
  • Leverage industry-accredited benchmarks (e.g., CIS) to develop standards-based security posture assessments; contribute to behavioral analytics pipelines and PII attribution capabilities that help detect, prevent, and respond to threats and abuse vectors
  • Partner with engineering teams across the company to understand security pain points and deliver solutions that reduce friction without compromising safety
  • Lead the design and enforcement of secure network architectures to actively defend against ransomware attacks and detect sophisticated data exfiltration attempts
  • Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and on-call rotations; hold a high bar for code quality, reliability, and sound technical decisions

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of industry experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production cloud environments
  • Strong foundational computer science skills — data structures, algorithms, systems design, and distributed computing
  • Proficiency in one or more of Java, C++, Python, Golang, or Rust, with solid SQL skills for data-driven features
  • Experience shipping and on-calling production services with a focus on availability, reliability, and observability
  • A collaborative, low-ego approach to engineering — comfortable iterating quickly and working across PM, design, and peer engineering teams
  • BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience

Skills

Required:Distributed systemsAuthentication and access managementProgramming languagesCloud and multi-cloud architecture
Nice to have:Security tooling and policy

Benefits

  • Salary: $200K – $287.5K (compensation shown)','Note: For salary and benefits information, refer to Snowflake Careers site'
Last updated Jul 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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