# Staff Software Engineer, Product Security

**Company:** [Snowflake](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/snowflake)
**Location:** Menlo Park, CA, Bellevue, WA
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $236k – $339k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Threat Modeling, secure design review, Application Security, Distributed Systems, Java, Go, Rust, C++, Python, Cloud Security, saas security, Cryptography, identity and access management, Vulnerability Management, Generative AI
**Posted:** 2026-08-11

> Leads product security architecture and builds security-critical services, frameworks, and controls across engineering teams. The role requires 10+ years of software engineering experience, deep expertise in secure distributed systems, and strong cross-team technical leadership.

## Job Description

## 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.

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