Snowflake
Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Security
$200K–$288K
US-CA-Menlo Park +1 · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 2, 2026
- Location
- US-CA-Menlo Park
US-WA-Bellevue - Experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience preferred, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Build and operate software-defined cloud security controls, platforms, and AI-augmented pipelines to improve Snowflake’s security posture across assets and cloud providers.
What you'll do
- Build services and automate security controls across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including IAM, monitoring, configuration management, and data protection.
- Develop real-time security monitoring and continuous pipelines that analyze posture data, score risk, and surface high-impact issues.
- Own security workstreams end to end, including design reviews, mentorship, documentation, testing, and observability.
What they ask for
- Experience designing and owning secure, large-scale systems, with knowledge of secure architecture and threat modeling.
- Software development experience in one or more of Java, C++, Go, or Python.
- Familiarity with distributed architectures and scalable APIs such as gRPC or REST.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills.
Nice to have
- Experience applying AI/ML to security problems and building supporting data pipelines.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and IaC such as Terraform or Pulumi.
Pay
$200K – $287.5K (base salary; currency not stated)
Tools
AWS, Azure, GCP, Java, C++, Go, Python, gRPC
AI focus
Build AI-augmented pipelines to analyze security posture and telemetry, score risk, and prioritize issues; AI/ML security experience is a bonus.
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