Senior (Staff) Penetration Tester

Snowflake; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 296,956 - 371,195; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fast-paced working environment

Strong support for innovation

Collaborative team culture

Job summary

A leading software company is looking for a Principal Vulnerability Research & Development Engineer to lead their offensive security team in Warszawa, Poland. The ideal candidate has over 7 years of software development experience, particularly in cloud environments. You will work to identify vulnerabilities and develop tools to enhance security practices. If you are passionate about offensive security research and thrive in dynamic environments, this role offers a unique opportunity to influence the future of security.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software or infrastructure development experience.
• Continuous learning mindset with diverse security domains interest.
• Strong background in one programming language.

Responsibilities

• Develop Red Team tools and methodologies.
• Participate in finding vulnerabilities in cloud environments.
• Lead offensive security teams.

Skills

Offensive Security mindset

Software development

Cloud environment experience

Strong communication skills

Bug exploitation

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

C++

Java

Python

JavaScript

Go

Job description

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.

WHAT YOU NEED:

• You have a passion for writing code to solve problems combined with an interest in Offensive Security.
• You have 7+ years of software or infrastructure development experience, preferably in a cloud environment.
• Knowledge of common bugs or misconfigurations in software and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, and Azure).
• You have a continuously learning mindset with a desire to dive and explore a wide range of security domains.
• You can demonstrate a strong background in one of the following languages:
  • Golang, Python, Java, JavaScript, C++, C
• Strong communication skills to comfortably work cross-functionally across the organization.
• Experience in Offensive Security is a plus but is not required for this role.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Develop tools, methodologies and infrastructure to support Red Team engagements in a variety of cloud environments and novel platforms.
• Participate in red team engagements against a diverse cloud environment and find vulnerabilities in software, systems, and networks.
• Set scope, objectives, and timelines for red team engagements and leverage data to create useful metrics.
• Work with security and engineering teams to communicate findings, recommendations, and knowledge to key stakeholders.
• Play a critical role in building a Red Team that has a wide scope and impact.

WHY YOU SHOULD WORK WITH US:

• We are laser focused on doing security better, and we do not tolerate the status quo.
• We are exploring new security domains across clouds and through the Snowflake platform.
• We have strong demand from our customers, and support from the business for security.
• We are a great team that combines a diverse set of backgrounds and skills.
• Did we mention we are one of the fastest-growing software companies, ever? The opportunity for impact is enormous.

Principal Vulnerability Research & Development Engineer

WHAT YOU NEED :

• You break things, and you want to break them anywhere, in any cloud.
• You want your work to mean other people cannot break our things, and collaborate to get it done.
• You eat and sleep offensive security research, bug bounties, CTFs, fuzzing, tools, and techniques.
• You find and exploit bugs in:
  • C++, Java, JavaScript, Go, and Python
  • Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, and Azure
  • Memory management, namespaces, cgroups, etc.
• You have helped build, or contributed at a senior level to an offensive security program before, and have strong opinions for how to make it better.
• You have a proven ability to manage yourself and produce results.
• You are a strong communicator who is comfortable working cross-functionally, with a track record of delivering results.

WHAT YOU WILL DO :

• Lead our offensive security team.
• Break Snowflake before our adversaries can.
• Work with threat hunters to make sure it, and all its variants can not happen again.
• Prove it with data.

WHY YOU SHOULD WORK WITH US :

• We are laser focused on doing security better, and we do not tolerate the status quo.
• We have strong demand from our customers, and support from the business for security.
• We are a great team that combines a diverse set of backgrounds and skills.
• Did we mention we are one of the fastest-growing software companies, ever? The opportunity for impact is enormous.

Snowflake 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?

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