Staff Software Engineer (Product Security)

• We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Product Security for our Security Foundations team
• Product security sits at the center of the trust customers place in the Snowflake platform, and this role owns the hard technical problems that keep that trust intact
• You will drive security architecture and secure-by-design practices across engineering teams, shaping how new products are built rather than reviewing them after the fact
• Set the technical direction for product security across multiple engineering teams, influencing architecture decisions before code is written
• Design and build security-critical services, frameworks, and controls that other engineering teams adopt as defaults
• Lead threat modeling and security design reviews for the platform’s most complex and high-risk systems
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to embed secure-by-design principles into the development lifecycle
• Investigate and drive resolution of the highest-severity security issues, then eliminate the underlying class of problem, not just the instance
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, raising the security engineering bar across the organization
• Own initiatives end to end, from problem framing and scoping through delivery and cross-team alignment
• Evaluate and integrate emerging security tooling, including AI-assisted analysis and automation, to scale the team’s impact

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance plans
• Health savings accounts
• Robust retirement plans
• Life and disability insurance
• Weekly online lunch and learns
• Virtual workout classes
• Ergonomic work-from-home equipment
• On-demand mental health and wellness programs
• Fertility benefits and family planning resources
• Generous time-off and various leave plans
• Onsite and Remote Work
• Employee discounts and pre-tax selections
• New hire equity + Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Quarterly bonus or commission program- Ability to frame ambiguous security problems, structure the analysis, and drive alignment across stakeholders
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a significant focus on product or application security
• Deep expertise designing and building secure, large-scale distributed systems or platforms
• Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages (for example Java, Go, Rust, C++, or Python) as a supporting capability, not the definition of the role
• Hands-on experience with threat modeling, secure design review, and remediation of complex vulnerability classes
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
• Strong track record of driving cross-team technical decisions and influencing engineering direction
• Experience securing cloud-native or multi-tenant SaaS platforms
• Familiarity with cryptography, identity and access management, or data security at scale
• Experience applying AI or GenAI workflows (for example Cortex AI) to security analysis, detection, or automation
• Contributions to open-source security projects or published security research
• Experience partnering with detection, incident response, or offensive security teams