Software Engineer - Secret, Cryptographic and Identity Infrastructure

snowflake· Engineering
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📍 US-WA-BellevueFullTime💰 USD 160K–230K/yr

About this role

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 deliver solutions that reduce friction without compromising on safety.

  • Write well-tested, reliable code and participate in design reviews, code reviews, and on-call rotations to keep critical systems healthy.

OUR IDEAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

  • A 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.

  • Strong 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.

BONUS POINTS FOR THE FOLLOWING:

  • 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.

WHY JOIN OUR SCII TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE?

The SCII team sits at the intersection of security, customer and infrastructure — a rare vantage point where the work you do directly shapes how thousands of Snowflake engineers build and ship, as well as where you can directly impact the encryption and key management for our customers. You won't be maintaining someone else's security layer; you'll be defining it. Whether it's rethinking how secrets are managed at enterprise scale, evolving service identity for a hyper-growth multi-cloud platform, or making authorization invisible and reliable, the problems are genuinely hard and the impact is company-wide.

This is a team that values craft, curiosity, and collaboration. You'll work alongside engineers who care deeply about the foundations they build and who take pride in making complex security invisible to the developers who depend on it. If you want a role where your technical decisions matter and your growth is tied directly to the scale of the platform you're protecting, this is it.

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

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The listed salary for this Software Engineer - Secret, Cryptographic and Identity Infrastructure position at snowflake is USD 160K–230K/yr. This is an FullTime role.
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Software Engineer - Secret, Cryptographic and Identity Infrastructure
snowflake · 💰 USD 160K–230K/yr
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