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Staff Security Engineer - Enterprise Security

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in information security
  • Proficiency in software development using Python, Go, Java, C, C++, or JavaScript
  • Hands-on experience designing, deploying, and maintaining endpoint security tools
  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related technical field

Responsibilities

  • Develop, maintain, and scale Snowflake's endpoint security solutions
  • Build intelligent security platforms and automate security operations using AI
  • Monitor security events, investigate incidents, and build real-time detection systems
  • Conduct regular risk and threat analyses to proactively identify and remediate vulnerabilities

About the company

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Snowflake

Computer Software / SaaS

Snowflake delivers the AI Data Cloud — a global network where thousands of organizations mobilize data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. Inside the AI Data Cloud, organizations unite their siloed data, easily discover and securely share governed data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single and seamless experience across multiple public clouds. Snowflake’s platform is the engine that powers and provides access to the AI Data Cloud, creating a solution for data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, data application development, and data sharing. Join Snowflake customers, partners, and data providers already taking their businesses to new frontiers in the AI Data Cloud.

Company details

Company typeLarge
IndustryComputer Software / SaaS
Company size5001 - 10000

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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 Staff Security Engineer for our Enterprise Security team. The threats facing modern organizations are evolving at an unprecedented pace — driven by AI, cloud complexity, and an ever-expanding attack surface. Our Enterprise Security team is responsible for protecting Snowflake, our employees, and our customers by designing, implementing, and maintaining robust endpoint security solutions at enterprise scale, defending not just endpoints and identities, but the AI-assisted workflows and intelligent systems that define how the modern enterprise operates.

 

AS A STAFF SECURITY ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:

  • Develop, maintain, and scale Snowflake's endpoint security solutions while actively contributing to architecture and strategy. This includes EDR, DLP, secure browser, MDM, and AI security solutions across a complex multi-cloud, multi-SaaS enterprise environment. Own the technical roadmap for endpoint security tooling as Snowflake rapidly grows.

  • Build intelligent security platforms and automate security operations using AI and robust software engineering. Identify opportunities to reduce toil, increase detection fidelity, and accelerate response through thoughtful, scalable automation.

  • Monitor security events, investigate incidents, and build real-time detection and prevention systems to protect against endpoint compromise and data exfiltration. Develop threat intelligence pipelines that keep us ahead of the adversary.

  • Conduct regular risk and threat analyses to proactively identify and remediate vulnerabilities end-to-end. Apply zero-trust principles to continuously reduce the attack surface across the endpoint fleet.

  • Develop and implement unified security policies, procedures, and standards for endpoint protection. Ensure alignment with relevant regulatory and compliance frameworks.

  • Partner across Security, Engineering, IT, and Product to define endpoint security strategy, drive secure engineering practices, and provide technical guidance to staff and end-users. Champion security culture through enablement and education.

  • Establish and uphold the highest standards for security engineering — from threat modeling and secure design to detection quality and incident response rigor. Mentor engineers, introduce new techniques and adversarial perspectives, and continuously advance the team's craft.

 

OUR IDEAL STAFF SECURITY ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in information security — including security engineering, threat intelligence or detection, or incident response — with a strong focus on endpoint security.

  • Proficiency in software development using Python, Go, Java, C, C++, or JavaScript, alongside strong experience with AI-assisted development.

  • Hands-on experience designing, deploying, and maintaining endpoint security tools (e.g., EDR, DLP, MDM, secure browsers, AI security solutions) across Windows, macOS, and Linux environments.

  • Strong understanding of operating systems, network protocols, application platforms, endpoint security concepts, and best practices.

  • Experience leading technical projects independently, driving data-informed decisions, and executing end-to-end.

  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

 

BONUS POINTS FOR THE FOLLOWING:

  • Master's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, or a related technical field.

  • Experience with infrastructure from major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and enterprise SaaS platforms at scale.

  • Relevant industry certifications such as CISSP, CEH, or Security+.

  • Demonstrated ability to communicate complex security concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, including executive stakeholders.

 

WHY JOIN OUR ENTERPRISE SECURITY TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE?

Snowflake is one of the fastest-growing enterprise software companies in history, and the Security Foundations team sits at the center of it — protecting not just the company, but the customers and data that power the modern data economy. You'll have the opportunity to shape the direction of our security roadmap and build foundational security primitives while working closely with Engineering, IT, and Product teams across a globally distributed, multi-cloud, multi-SaaS environment. This is a rare opportunity to build security programs from the ground up, at a scale and speed few companies match, with teammates who are among the best in the industry. If you're energized by hard problems, believe security is a product discipline as much as a defensive one, and want your work to matter at global scale — Snowflake is where you build what's next.

The application window is expected to be open until September 5, 2026. This opportunity will remain posted based on business needs, which may be before or after the specified date.

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

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