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# Principal Security Architect, Applied Field Engineering at Snowflake

- **Company:** [Snowflake](https://feeny.ai/companies/snowflake)
- **Location:** Sydney, Australia
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-30
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/snowflake/2a88cfe2-c699-4023-9725-6dd1703ab18c

## Job description

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. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Our Solution Engineering organization is seeking a Security Architect to join our APJ Field CTO Office to act as a security evangelist, architect, and hands-on subject matter expert/practitioner. In this role, you will cultivate key customer and partnership relationships, demonstrate thought leadership, and act as a trusted security advisor to current and potential customers. You will also collaborate with internal and external technical and business stake Security Architect, you must share our passion and vision in helping our customers and partners secure their Snowflake Accounts, thrive in a dynamic environment, and have the flexibility and willingness to jump in and get things done. You are equally comfortable in both a business and technical context, interacting with executives and talking shop and deep diving with technical audiences.

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL GET TO:

- Help to scope security related feature enhancements on behalf of customers to work with Product Management on ways to improve the product from a security perspective.
- Assist in clarifying concepts of data engineering, data warehousing, data collaboration, AI and Machine Learning. Share industry best practices, and features in the Snowflake platform; Assist in building demos and prototypes using Snowflake in conjunction with other integrated solutions; Engage with other relevant Snowflake stakeholders internally.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Sales, Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Support in order to drive customer security feature adoption.
- Partner with our Product Marketing team to define and support Snowflake's AI and Data Cloud posture and Security DataLake workload awareness and pipeline building via marketing initiatives including conferences, trade shows, and events.
- Work and collaborate with other Field CTO members in areas of: Enterprise AI, Gen AI, Data Engineering, Applications, as a security export you may be involved in collaborative engagements.
- Partner with the best in the industry product team, helping to shape vision and capabilities for Snowflake Data Marketplace.
- Share knowledge with internal and industry communities via webinars & conferences.

ON DAY ONE WE WILL EXPECT YOU TO HAVE:

- 10+ years of industry, customer-facing, and hands-on implementation experience with a core focus on data concepts, privacy, governance, networking, infosec and security technologies.
- Strong understanding of security related concepts such as RBAC, OAuth, Identity and Access Management, encryption and data governance.
- Expertise and in-depth working knowledge and hands-on experience in cloud platforms (at least one of the following: AWS, Azure, GCP), and its corresponding security, data encryption, and networking architecture and technologies.
- Ability to build out demos, configure CSP environments, build out prototypes, and test use cases on the Snowflake platform and relevant integrations with CSP services and external security tools.
- Ability to create security and networking-related reference architectures, security best practices and hardening guides, and articulate them to a customer audience.
- A demonstrated knowledge of security frameworks such as NIST, CIS, OWASP, MITRE ATT&CK and how to articulate controls and security mechanisms within a Risk Assessment centred approach.
- Knowledge of ANSI SQL compliant databases and / or data warehousing is preferred
- AWS/Azure/GCP security and / or networking specialty related certification achievement is a plus
- Strong understanding of networking concepts, including TCP/IP, IP routing, DNS, Proxies and CSP private networking technologies including NAT, Firewalls, TLS and related design and troubleshooting.
- Strong knowledge of cloud networking, including cloud service providers like Azure, AWS, and GCP
- Strong understanding of identity management use cases, including authentication (SAML), authorization (OAUTH), and identity governance (SCIM & RBAC)
- Deep experience with large-scale infrastructure-as-a-service platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, etc.)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills, presentation and whiteboarding skills to a large audience, and the ability to successfully communicate security and risk-related concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Fair understanding of the culture diversity across Asia Pacific Japan region and flexibility of working with customers and colleagues from multiple APJ time zones.
- Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Information Management Systems, or related field required. Masters preferred.

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](http://careers.snowflake.com)

## About Snowflake

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Snowflake provides an AI Data Cloud platform that enables enterprises to store, analyze, and securely share their data across multiple clouds and geographies.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: SNOW)
- **Headquarters**: Bozeman, Montana, United States
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Not explicitly listed in the provided search results (widely known co-founders include Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes, Marcin Zukowski – not verified in these search results)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Enterprise software, cloud data platform
- **Target Customers**: B2B, including large enterprises (e.g., hundreds of the world’s largest companies), mid-market, and SMBs
- **Mission**: “To Mobilize the World’s Data” (Glassdoor) and “empower every enterprise to achieve its full potential through data and AI” (Snowflake Careers page)

## Products & Services
- **Snowflake AI Data Cloud**: A unified, multi-cloud platform that combines data warehousing, data lakes, data sharing, and AI/ML capabilities. Customers can discover, share, and analyze data while running analytic workloads across public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- **Snowflake Marketplace**: A marketplace for discovering and accessing third‑party data sets and applications.
- **Snowflake‑Powered Applications**: Platform for building and deploying data‑intensive applications.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not directly provided in search results (as a public company, market cap fluctuates and is available on financial websites).
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue – $1 to $5 billion (USD) per Glassdoor.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not explicitly mentioned in the search results (historically backed by Sequoia Capital, Dragoneer, etc. – not verified here).
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Named #1 on the 2023 Fortune Future 50 List ([Fortune.com](https://fortune.com))
  - Listed as a U.S. Best Large Place to Work by BuiltIn in 2024
  - Recognized as one of the “20 Coolest Cloud Software Companies” by CRN in 2022 and 2024
  - Headcount of 5,001–10,000 employees with 30 global locations; actively hiring
  - Revenue range $1B–$5B indicates strong scale

## Competitive Advantages
- **Multi‑Cloud Flexibility**: Operates across AWS, Azure, and GCP, avoiding vendor lock‑in.
- **Unified Data Experience**: One platform for data sharing, analytics, and AI, reducing silos.
- **Separation of Compute and Storage**: Allows independent scaling and cost efficiency (not detailed in provided sources, but a known differentiator).
- **Strong Ecosystem**: Data marketplace and extensive partner network.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI & Data Innovation**: The company’s current emphasis is on making “enterprise AI easy, efficient, and trusted” and integrating AI capabilities into the Data Cloud.
- **Global Expansion**: Active hiring across 30 locations indicates continued geographic growth.
- **Customer‑Centric Development**: Focus on empowering enterprises to achieve “full potential through data and AI.”

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “driven by innovation, low egos, high bars, and collaboration” (Snowflake Careers page). Glassdoor rating of 3.9/5 overall (78% approve CEO).
- **Work‑Life Balance**: Glassdoor rates Work/Life Balance at 3.7/5; many remote and hybrid roles available (see Indeed listings).
- **Benefits**: “Benefits & Beyond” program includes competitive compensation, equity, career advancement programs, and commitment to pay equality and veteran hiring.
- **Engineering Focus**: Hiring process includes 2–4 week timeline with technical interviews; the company values impactful, project‑based work for all roles, including interns.
- **Recognition**: Named a Best Large Place to Work (BuiltIn 2024) and future‑focused by Fortune, signaling strong employer brand.

## Sources
1. [Snowflake Careers Overview](https://careers.snowflake.com/us/en)
2. [Life at Snowflake](https://careers.snowflake.com/us/en/snowflake-life)
3. [Snowflake on Glassdoor](https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Snowflake-EI_IE928471.11,20.htm)
4. [Snowflake Hiring Process](https://careers.snowflake.com/us/en/gethired)
5. [Snowflake on Indeed](https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Snowflake-7f4a7fba)
6. [Snowflake Careers Portal (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/snowflake) – provided by user

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