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SnowflakeSnowflakeMcLean, VA

Senior Software Engineer - Natsec

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead key areas in building compliant, secure, and auditable infrastructure for Snowflake's public sector operations. This role involves designing and implementing scalable distributed systems, working with customers, and ensuring operational readiness in sensitive production environments.

200k – 288k/yr
Hybrid7+ YOEFullstack Engineering

About the 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.

Running Snowflake in public sectors in different countries and regions, even in different industry verticals, requires us to build a compliant, secure, and auditable infrastructure. Many key design decisions are deeply rooted in the Snowflake product architecture. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for leading several key areas and collaborating with various engineering groups in addition to the Public Sector team. To be successful in the area, you will need to have (and continue to build) a broad and in-depth knowledge base on cloud infrastructure, privacy, and governance, compliance controls, data security and data residency in various aspects of Snowflake.

AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL:

  • Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.
  • Design, implement and maintain scalable distributed systems for our cloud automation platform that include cloud control plane, Kubernetes container platform and traffic and networking.
  • Work directly with customers to quickly understand their critical problems and design and implement solutions.
  • Deploy and maintain availability of cloud compute servers and Kubernetes clusters that power the Snowflake platform in sensitive (sometimes air-gapped) production environments using automation.
  • Implement software delivery pipelines that support continuous delivery and automatic compliance in sensitive runtime environments.
  • Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding security, reliability, availability, and performance.
  • Collaborate closely with product teams on requirements & SLOs for deploying software into air-gapped environments.
  • Identify, troubleshoot, and solve network & systems issues.
  • Use AI-driven tooling to automate operational tasks.

OUR IDEAL SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

  • 7+ years of industry experience designing and supporting large-scale distributed systems in production, with recent experience in deploying at public sector customers
  • In-depth experience with container orchestration, cloud infrastructure and IaC tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
  • Strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
  • In-depth development skills in Java, C++, Golang or Python
  • Experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Experience with database systems and database internals preferred
  • Advanced degree in Computer Science or related field

Requirements:

  • Security Clearance Required: Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
  • Condition: Must be willing and able to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Polygraph.
  • Verification: Proof of clearance is required prior to an offer of employment.

Citizenship & Screening

  • U.S. Citizenship: Required due to federal law and government contract restrictions; verification via valid passport or approved documentation is mandatory.
  • Compliance: Candidates must meet all applicable customer and government security screening requirements.

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 customerSnowflake 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

Skills

Distributed SystemsKubernetesTerraformPulumiJavaC++GoPythonAWSAzureGCPDatabase Systems
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