Snowflake
Engineering
SeniorSoftwareEngineer-Natsec
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“Senior Software Engineer - Natsec at Snowflake”
Industry & Context.
Analytical problem solving skills
Active TS/SCI clearance, Polygraph clearance, U.S. Citizenship
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
7+ years industry experience, Experience deploying public sector customers, In-depth container orchestration experience, In-depth cloud infrastructure experience, In-depth IaC tools experience, CS fundamentals, Data structures, Algorithms, Distributed systems, In-depth Java development, In-depth C++ development, In-depth Golang development, In-depth Python development, Experience with AWS, Experience with Azure, Experience with GCP, Active TS/SCI clearance, Polygraph clearance, U.S. Citizenship
Nice to Have
Experience with database systems, Experience with database internals
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborating with engineering groups; Collaborate with product teams
Full Job Description
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. Running Snowflake in public sectors in different countries and regions, even in different industry verticals, requires us to build a compliant, secure, and auditable infrastructure. Many key design decisions are deeply rooted in the Snowflake product architecture. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for leading several key areas and collaborating with various engineering groups in addition to the Public Sector team. To be successful in the area, you will need to have (and continue to build) a broad and in-depth knowledge base on cloud infrastructure, privacy, and governance, compliance controls, data security and data residency in various aspects of Snowflake. AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL: - Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills. - Design, implement and maintain scalable distributed systems for our cloud automation platform that include cloud control plane, Kubernetes container platform and traffic and networking. - Work directly with customers to quickly understand their critical problems and design and implement solutions. - Deploy and maintain availability of cloud compute servers and Kubernetes clusters that power the Snowflake platform in sensitive (
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