# Director of Engineering - Application, Cloud and Offensive Security
**Company:** [Snowflake](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/snowflake)
**Location:** Bellevue, WA, Menlo Park, CA
**Salary:** $304K-$437K
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** Application Security, Cloud Security, Offensive Security, Red Team, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Ttps, Ai/Ml Security, Cissp, Oscp, Grem
**Posted:** 2026-05-07
> Leads engineering teams across application security, cloud security assurance, and offensive security (red team) at Snowflake. Defines strategy, builds high-performing teams, embeds security in AI products, and communicates risks to executives. Requires 12+ years in security engineering leadership and deep expertise in at least two security pillars.
## Job Description
## Responsibilities
- Define and execute the security strategy across three core pillars: application security, cloud security assurance, and offensive security (including the red team program), setting direction and driving measurable outcomes across all three pillars.
- Build and develop a high-performing security engineering organization, hiring top talent and creating a culture of rigor, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Drive the offensive security program including red team operations, adversarial simulations, and proactive threat modeling to stay ahead of emerging attack vectors in an AI-accelerated threat landscape.
- Partner closely with engineering, product, and infrastructure leadership to embed security into Snowflake's AI products and cloud architecture from the ground up.
- Own the cloud security assurance function, ensuring Snowflake's cloud environment meets the security standards expected by enterprise customers and regulators worldwide.
- Translate security risk into business impact, communicating program status, emerging threats, and strategic priorities to executive stakeholders with clarity and confidence.
- Influence company-wide security posture through cross-functional collaboration with Legal, Compliance, Trust, and the broader CISO organization.

## Requirements
- 12+ years of progressive experience in security engineering, with significant tenure in leadership roles overseeing multi-domain security programs (or equivalent experience).
- Deep expertise across at least two of the three pillars: application security, cloud security, or offensive security, with working knowledge across all three.
- Proven track record building and scaling high-performing security engineering teams in a fast-paced enterprise technology environment.
- Strong command of cloud security architecture across **AWS**, **Azure**, or **GCP**, including cloud-native security controls, identity, and infrastructure security.
- Experience leading or overseeing a red team or offensive security program, with a clear understanding of adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures (**TTPs**).
- Exceptional ability to partner with product and engineering organizations, influencing secure-by-design practices and embedding security without creating velocity drag.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience securing **AI/ML** workloads, large language model infrastructure, or AI-adjacent attack surfaces.
- Familiarity with security for multi-tenant cloud data platforms at enterprise scale.
- Industry certifications such as **CISSP**, **OSCP**, **GREM**, or equivalent.
- Contributions to industry security research, conference presentations, or open-source security tooling.

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