Snowflake
Engineering
SoftwareEngineer-Secret,CryptographicandIdentityInfrastructure
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“Software Engineer - Secret, Cryptographic and Identity Infrastructure at Snowflake. Skills: Security Infrastructure, Cryptography, Identity Management, Software Engineering. Design, develop, and scale software systems. Build and maintain security tooling”
What You'll Achieve.
Deliver the most secure Data Cloud; Secure customer data; Increase developer autonomy; Educate engineering teams on secure design and coding practices; Reduce friction without compromising on safety; Keep critical systems healthy; Direct security and reliability impact at scale; Define security; Make authorization invisible and reliable; Protect the platform
Industry & Context.
Solve problems; Accelerate impact; Discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results; Solving the hardest security problems at scale; Minimize attack surface
On-call rotations
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience, Hands-on experience in software development using one or more of: JavaScript, Java, Python, C, C++, Golang, or Rust, interpersonal and communication skills — the ability to collaborate across teams and explain technical concepts clearly, A genuine interest in building software that has direct security and reliability impact at scale
Nice to Have
Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field, Experience designing, building, testing, and maintaining reliable, scalable software solutions, Familiarity with secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC) or security infrastructure, including secret management systems, service identity, authentication, or authorization, Experience deploying and operating services on Kubernetes, Experience building production services on AWS, Azure, or GCP
What You'll Do.
and scale software systems
Build and maintain security tooling
Implement automation and self-service processes
Contribute to architecture and evolution of core security infrastructure
Partner with engineering teams
Participate in design reviews
Participate in code reviews
Participate in on-call rotations
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate across teams; Explain technical concepts clearly; Partner with engineering teams across the company; Work alongside engineers
Communication Scope
Communication skills; Explain technical concepts clearly
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. We are hiring a Software Engineer for our SCII (Secret, Cryptographic and Identity Infrastructure) team. SCII builds the foundational security systems that empower every Snowflake engineer to deliver the most secure Data Cloud to our customers — solving the hardest security problems at scale so the rest of the organization doesn't have to. SCII also owns the area of End-to-end encryption (E2EE), to secure customer data that prevents third parties from reading the data while at-rest or in transit to and from Snowflake and to minimize the attack surface. AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL: - Design, develop, and scale software systems that help Snowflake engineers build secure products across a natively multi-cloud environment. - Build and maintain security tooling to define, monitor, enforce, and detect security policy violations across the platform. - Implement automation and self-service processes that increase developer autonomy and educate engineering teams on secure design and coding practices. - Contribute to the architecture and evolution of core security infrastructure — spanning secret management, key management, service identity, authentication, and authorization. - Partner with engineering teams across the company to understand security pain points and
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