Staff Software Engineer, Product Security

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for product security across multiple engineering teams and influence architecture decisions before implementation.
• Design and build security-critical services, frameworks, and controls adopted by engineering teams as defaults.
• Lead threat modeling and security design reviews for complex, high-risk platform systems.
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to embed secure-by-design principles into the development lifecycle.
• Investigate and resolve high-severity security issues while eliminating underlying vulnerability classes.
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers and raise the security engineering bar across the organization.
• Own initiatives end to end, from problem framing and scoping through delivery and cross-team alignment.
• Evaluate and integrate emerging security tooling, including AI-assisted analysis and automation.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with significant focus on product or application security.
• Deep expertise designing and building secure, large-scale distributed systems or platforms.
• Track record of driving cross-team technical decisions and influencing engineering direction.
• Hands-on experience with threat modeling, secure design reviews, and remediation of complex vulnerability classes.
• Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages, such as Java, Go, Rust, C++, or Python.
• Ability to frame ambiguous security problems, structure analysis, and drive stakeholder alignment.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience securing cloud-native or multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
• Familiarity with cryptography, identity and access management, or data security at scale.
• Experience applying AI or generative AI workflows to security analysis, detection, or automation.
• Contributions to open-source security projects or published security research.
• Experience partnering with detection, incident response, or offensive security teams.

Compensation and Benefits

• Annual base salary: $236,000–$339,250.
• Benefits and additional salary information are available through the Snowflake Careers site.