Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Security

Snowflake Computing - Bellevue, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Bellevue, WA

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services

About the position

Join the Snowflake team and help build the future of data. As a member of the Cloud Security team, you will play a crucial role in maintaining and enhancing the security standards across our production cloud environments. Snowflake's founders have designed a data platform that is effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users, and we are committed to powering the Data Cloud where organizations can unlock the value of their data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. We are looking for motivated and passionate experts in cloud security architecture and operations who can help us maintain a highly defensible cloud infrastructure. Our ideal candidate is someone who wakes up each morning thinking about ways to scale security, aiming to lower risk while allowing the business to move quickly and safely. You will embody the belief that security should be an inherent property of the tools and processes engineers use every day. Your goal will be to automate everything, applying tooling, automation, and self-service to security workflows to increase team scale and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Build monitoring and alerting systems to ensure systems are hardened, vulnerabilities are patched, and threats are detected
• Operate vulnerability discovery tools for operating systems, containers, and software libraries
• Build, deploy, and manage production security tools and services to monitor networks, endpoints, and cloud workloads
• Design and operate scalable processes to provision cloud access and maintain least-privilege
• Leverage your expertise in systems, network, and cloud security to troubleshoot production services
• Maintain a reliable and low-touch infrastructure using technologies such as Terraform, Kubernetes, and immutable images

Requirements

• 5+ years experience deploying services on public cloud infrastructure
• Detailed understanding of cloud and network security
• Fluency in one or more programming or scripting languages
• Experience deploying and customizing security tools to address threats and lower risk: CSPM, vulnerability scanners, static analyzers, web application firewalls, IDS/IPS, endpoint security monitoring, etc.
• Knowledge of networking and web protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS, REST), and the ability to analyze traffic to find anomalies
• Understanding of modern cloud technology components and deployment patterns: virtual machines, containers, Kubernetes, serverless, infrastructure as code, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with other teams to achieve complex objectives

Nice-to-haves

• 7+ years experience working in an information security discipline
• Experience deploying services in a multi-cloud environment, with particular value on Azure and GCP expertise
• Ability to write SQL queries and build dashboards, metrics, and reports to drive security outcomes
• Experience using CI/CD pipelines to perform automated security testing and change management
• Have read and are capable of implementing ideas from 'Site Reliability Engineering' and 'Building Secure & Reliable Systems'
• Contributions to the security community, such as open source tools, research papers, conference talks, etc.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401k plan
• Flexible scheduling
• Professional development opportunities
• Paid holidays