Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This role sits at a core layer of a large-scale SaaS platform, focused on the shared security capabilities that many product teams depend on. Building foundational services for secret management, key management, and identity and authorization is central to operating a multi-tenant cloud product, especially when the environment must function across multiple public clouds and a distributed footprint.
From a SaaS career perspective, the work builds durable expertise in security-as-infrastructure: creating reusable libraries and services, setting technical direction, and balancing reliability with developer usability. The emphasis on diagnosing performance, scalability, and reliability bottlenecks reflects the operational realities of mature SaaS systems, where security controls must be engineered to support continuous delivery and broad internal adoption.
The position is best suited to engineers who prefer platform-level problem solving over feature delivery, and who enjoy partnering with many engineering groups to understand needs and reduce friction through well-designed abstractions. It also fits professionals who want to deepen hands-on systems skills in languages such as Go or Java while working on security controls that are embedded into everyday engineering workflows.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
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.
The Fundamental Security team builds the foundational security services and libraries that empower Snowflake engineers to bring the most secure Data Cloud to our customers. We solve the hard security problems so other Snowflake engineers don’t have to. Security, reliability and quality are critical. We need smart engineers who can pick up and understand complex technical areas quickly – and who are enthusiastic about building new technologies!
In this role, you will design, build and support software solutions across a wide range of problem areas, including Secret Management, Key Management, Identity and Authorization. You will have the opportunity to help set the direction for the security infrastructure used by engineers across the company. The systems you build must be natively multi-cloud, highly-reliable and scale to match Snowflake’s massive and distributed footprint.
We’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate Snowflake’s 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.
As a Software Engineer at Snowflake, you will:
Design, develop, and support critical security services, libraries and frameworks that are highly reliable and easy to use.
Build high-quality and highly reliable software to meet the needs of a fast growing company in a multi-cloud environment.
Analyze and understand reliability, performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them.
Understand the security risks faced by Snowflake and our customers, and build solutions to mitigate them.
Work with engineering teams from across Snowflake to build empathy and understand their needs.
OUR IDEAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:
3+ years of relevant work experience in software development
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
Fluency in Golang or Java
Familiarity with development in a Linux environment.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
Excellent problem solving skills, and strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc.
Experience with design, implementation, testing, debugging and documentation.
Ability to work on-site in our Bellevue office.
BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING:
Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
Experience building and supporting highly reliable and scalable GRPC services
Experience building and supporting developer facing libraries and frameworks
Experience with workload orchestration systems such as Kubernetes to deploy and operate services at scale
Experience using infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform and Pulumi to manage production infrastructure
Experience building secret management, key management, identity and related services
Experience with AWS, Azure and GCP to build production services
Experience building or operating public key infrastructure (PKI)
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
