Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This role sits at the intersection of cloud data infrastructure and platform trust, a core concern for modern SaaS products that operate as shared, multi-tenant services. Database platform security work in a Data Cloud context tends to be deeply product-facing, because controls like network access, key management, and secret storage directly shape how enterprise customers adopt and govern the service.
From a SaaS career standpoint, the scope offers durable experience in building security capabilities as first-class platform features rather than bolt-ons. Work that spans zero trust connectivity, cryptographic infrastructure, and emerging secret management mirrors the security surface area many SaaS companies eventually need to formalize as they scale usage and compliance expectations. The emphasis on operational readiness and incident response also builds the production discipline that differentiates platform engineers in cloud-native businesses.
The position is best suited to engineers who want ownership across design, implementation, and reliability outcomes, and who are comfortable reasoning about distributed systems under real customer constraints. It will particularly fit professionals early in their platform engineering path who want to deepen security fundamentals while still shipping services that other teams and customers depend on.
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
