Staff Software Engineer, Product Security

Snowflake • Menlo Park, CA

1d • $236,000 - $339,250

About The Position

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 Staff Software Engineer, Product Security for our Security Foundations team. Product security sits at the center of the trust customers place in the Snowflake platform, and this role owns the hard technical problems that keep that trust intact. You will drive security architecture and secure-by-design practices across engineering teams, shaping how new products are built rather than reviewing them after the fact.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a significant focus on product or application security
• Deep expertise designing and building secure, large-scale distributed systems or platforms
• Strong track record of driving cross-team technical decisions and influencing engineering direction
• Hands-on experience with threat modeling, secure design review, and remediation of complex vulnerability classes
• Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages (for example Java, Go, Rust, C++, or Python) as a supporting capability, not the definition of the role
• Ability to frame ambiguous security problems, structure the analysis, and drive alignment across stakeholders
• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

• Experience securing cloud-native or multi-tenant SaaS platforms
• Familiarity with cryptography, identity and access management, or data security at scale
• Experience applying AI or GenAI workflows (for example Cortex AI) to security analysis, detection, or automation
• Contributions to open-source security projects or published security research
• Experience partnering with detection, incident response, or offensive security teams

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for product security across multiple engineering teams, influencing architecture decisions before code is written
• Design and build security-critical services, frameworks, and controls that other engineering teams adopt as defaults
• Lead threat modeling and security design reviews for the platform's most complex and high-risk systems
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to embed secure-by-design principles into the development lifecycle
• Investigate and drive resolution of the highest-severity security issues, then eliminate the underlying class of problem, not just the instance
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, raising the security engineering bar across the organization
• Own initiatives end to end, from problem framing and scoping through delivery and cross-team alignment
• Evaluate and integrate emerging security tooling, including AI-assisted analysis and automation, to scale the team's impact

Benefits

• The Product Security team builds the frameworks, services, and controls that make secure-by-design practices the default across Snowflake’s products and engineering lifecycle.
• We tackle complex problems spanning security architecture, automated security reviews, software supply-chain security, vulnerability management, and AI-assisted security at Snowflake’s scale.
• Engineers on the team have the opportunity to shape foundational security systems used across the company and directly strengthen the trust customers place in the Snowflake platform.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree