Snowflake PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER - PLATFORM SECURITY 

United States, California 

366068907

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:

• 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.

• Lead 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.

• Mentor and coach other engineers.

• 15+ 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.

• Strong fundamentals in computer science skills.

• Expert-level development skills in Java

• Advanced degree in Computer Science or related degree.

• Ph.D. in a related field is a plus.

The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $235,000 - $368,000.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan.