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title: 'Senior Software Engineer - Identity, Data Security and Trust at Snowflake'
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# Senior Software Engineer - Identity, Data Security and Trust at Snowflake

- **Company:** [Snowflake](https://feeny.ai/companies/snowflake)
- **Location:** Bellevue, WA
- **Compensation:** $200k–$288k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/snowflake/5f731aa9-26a6-4760-8941-9f4aff96864d

## 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.

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer across our Identity, Data Security and Trust organization. These teams builds the security backbone of Snowflake — enabling customers to confidently bring their most sensitive data and workloads to the Data Cloud, empowering every Snowflake engineer to deliver the most secure platform at scale, and giving customers the tools to monitor, achieve, and maintain a strong security, governance, privacy, and compliance posture. As the agentic era accelerates, these teams are at the forefront of building AI-native security capabilities that protect the world's data.

AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:

- 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

OUR IDEAL SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

- 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

## BONUS POINTS FOR THE FOLLOWING:

- Knowledge of identity and access management concepts and protocols — SAML, SCIM, OAuth, OIDC, Federation, MFA, or RBAC
- Familiarity with security infrastructure domains such as secret management, key management, service identity, authentication, or authorization
- Experience with database internals, query engines, or data platform systems
- Exposure to machine learning or AI systems, particularly applied to anomaly detection, behavioral analytics, or risk classification
- Contributions to developer platforms, SDKs, or multi-tenant extensibility frameworks
- Experience deploying and operating services on Kubernetes or production cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

WHY JOIN OUR IDENTITY, DATA SECURITY AND TRUST TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE? These teams sit at a rare intersection: the security, identity, infrastructure, and customer trust layers of one of the fastest-growing data platforms in the world. You won't be maintaining someone else's security layer; you'll be defining it. These are teams that value craft, curiosity, and collaboration, and that take pride in making complex security invisible to the developers and customers who depend on it. If you want a role where your technical decisions matter and your growth is tied directly to the scale of the platform you're protecting — and you're energized by the challenge of securing the agentic era before it fully arrives — this is it.

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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