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Runtime-Critical Platform & Governance Roles

2 days ago

Software Engineer, Database Platform Security

Snowflake

US-CA-Menlo Park

Full-time

GenOps Responsibility Profile

Runtime Ownership ✓ Yes
Control Plane ✓ Yes
Governance / Policy ✓ Yes
Observability / Telemetry ✗ No
Incident / Reliability ✓ Yes
Regulated Context ✓ Yes
AI / Model Runtime ✗ No
Primary Domain cloud platform
Production Environment prod
Classification Confidence 95%

Rationale: This is a clear GenOps role owning production security infrastructure for Snowflake's global platform, including zero-trust network policies, key management, and secret management systems. The role explicitly includes operational readiness, incident management, and ensuring customer commitments for security, reliability, and availability of distributed services at scale.

Job Description

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.

There is only one Data Cloud. Snowflake’s founders started from scratch and designed a data platform built for the cloud that is effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. But it didn’t stop there. They engineered Snowflake to power the Data Cloud, where thousands of organizations unlock the value of their data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. This is our vision: a world with endless insights to tackle the challenges and opportunities of today and reveal the possibilities of tomorrow.

Our Database Platform Security team is dedicated to building best-in-class security solutions for the Snowflake platform. We focus on three key areas:

  • Zero Trust/Network Security: We ensure secure access from/to Snowflake to customer environments through features like network policies and private links.

  • Key Management: We provide a robust crypto infrastructure for all customer data and metadata, offering key rotation, rekeying, and advanced Tri-secret Sharing for Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) capabilities.

  • Secret Management: This is a new and rapidly growing area where we are building functionality for secure storage and management of secrets like OAuth tokens and credentials within Snowflake.

You will:

  • Work on highly impactful initiatives from idea formulation to design and implementation.

  • Innovate, design and build highly available, reliable, and secure distributed services and solutions within the global Snowflake platform.

  • Ensure operational readiness of services, leading incident management and mitigation discussions including meeting customer commitments for security, reliability, availability, and performance.

Qualifications:

  • Between 1 to 5 years of industry experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale distributed systems in production, with recent experience in building large scale cloud services.

  • Knowledge and experience with different security, governance, privacy and compliance areas is a plus (though not required).

  • Strong fundamentals in computer science skills.

  • Strong development skills in Java, Python, SQL.

  • BS in Computer Science or related degree.

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.

Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

How do you want to make your impact?

For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com

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