Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Database Platform Security role sits at the heart of a cloud-native data platform, where SaaS expectations around trust, isolation, and secure connectivity are product features rather than back-office concerns. Work spanning Zero Trust access patterns, key management, and secret management reflects the security surface area typical of modern multi-tenant platforms operating at significant scale and concurrency.
From a SaaS career perspective, the role builds durable experience in designing and running security-critical distributed services in production. Ownership from idea formation through operational readiness aligns with how platform teams in SaaS mature capabilities over time, balancing reliability, customer commitments, and incident response. Exposure to cryptographic infrastructure, governance-adjacent concerns, and secure service interfaces transfers well to other cloud platforms, developer tools, and data infrastructure companies.
This position is best suited to engineers who want to be close to foundational platform decisions and are comfortable pairing deep technical work with operational accountability. It fits someone early to mid-career who values strong computer science fundamentals and wants to broaden into applied security domains without needing a narrowly specialized background at the outset.
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.
There is only one Data Cloud. Snowflake’s founders started from scratch and designed a data platform built for the cloud that is effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. But it didn’t stop there. They engineered Snowflake to power the Data Cloud, where thousands of organizations unlock the value of their data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. This is our vision: a world with endless insights to tackle the challenges and opportunities of today and reveal the possibilities of tomorrow.
Our Database Platform Security team is dedicated to building best-in-class security solutions for the Snowflake platform. We focus on three key areas:
Zero Trust/Network Security: We ensure secure access from/to Snowflake to customer environments through features like network policies and private links.
Key Management: We provide a robust crypto infrastructure for all customer data and metadata, offering key rotation, rekeying, and advanced Tri-secret Sharing for Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) capabilities.
Secret Management: This is a new and rapidly growing area where we are building functionality for secure storage and management of secrets like OAuth tokens and credentials within Snowflake.
You will:
Work on highly impactful initiatives from idea formulation to design and implementation.
Innovate, design and build highly available, reliable, and secure distributed services and solutions within the global Snowflake platform.
Ensure operational readiness of services, leading incident management and mitigation discussions including meeting customer commitments for security, reliability, availability, and performance.
Qualifications:
Between 1 to 5 years of industry experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale distributed systems in production, with recent experience in building large scale cloud services.
Knowledge and experience with different security, governance, privacy and compliance areas is a plus (though not required).
Strong fundamentals in computer science skills.
Strong development skills in Java, Python, SQL.
BS in Computer Science or related degree.
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
