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Snowflake Computing

Senior Software Engineer, Application Security

Snowflake Computing, Bellevue, Washington, us, 98009


Build the future of data. Join the Snowflake team.

In this position you are expected to design, plan, and implement solutions that improve and verify the security posture of Snowflake products. Projects focus on building a platform that makes it easy to deploy and maintain security services, unifying security experience for developers, increasing developer autonomy as it pertains to security, detecting security vulnerabilities, secure-by-default solutions, and leveraging data to drive security outcomes. We hold a special emphasis on building with software engineering best practices (documentation, testing, observability, etc). The ultimate goal is to build a world-class security experience for developers in Snowflake.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Design, plan, and implement features and projects that enable Snowflake systems remain secure-by-defaultBuild services and libraries to increase developer productivity as it pertains to security, leveraging data to drive outcomesWork alongside engineering and security teams, provide expert leadership and advice on secure architecture, design, and implementationCreate and scale security products and services with high developer empathySecure modern software and technologies running in a multi-cloud environmentREQUIRED SKILLSAbility to develop threat models and review design documents from the security perspectiveEmpathy and advocacy for developer experience. We don't tell developers what not to do, we show them how to do it safely, ideally by defaultExperience with finding bugs in software written in a variety of languages such as Java, C++ JavaScript, Go, and PythonAbility to work collaboratively and communicate clearly with engineering and other cross-functional stakeholders on product launches, security issues and other initiativesAbility to lead with data and scalable solutions in everything you doExperience with designing and implementing distributed software systems with robust APIs (gRPC, REST, etc)PREFERRED SKILLSExperience with production service development in GoAbility to write, debug and optimize SQL queriesUnderstanding and properly applying software algorithms and data structuresExperience with Kubernetes and Infrastructure-as-code (terraform, pulumi, etc)Experience with building scalable and concurrent web applicationsWHY YOU SHOULD WORK WITH USWe are a forward thinking team that likes to challenge the status quo, and are unafraid to be creative in our approaches to scaling securitySecurity is paramount to Snowflake customers, and we're determined to hold ourselves to the highest standardsWe pride ourselves on attracting a team with diverse backgrounds and skills

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.