Senior Red Team Engineer

Snowflake; United States; On-site; USD 176,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Flexible spending & health savings account

At least 12 paid holidays

Paid time off

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Snowflake is seeking a skilled individual for a Red Team role focused on conducting security assessments in diverse cloud environments. The ideal candidate will have over 4 years of experience in information security, particularly in offensive security practices.

The role involves developing tools and methodologies to support Red Team engagements and requires strong communication skills. The compensation ranges from $176,000 to $253,000, along with a variety of benefits including health, retirement plans, and paid time off.

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in information security, preferably offensive security.
• Strong communication skills to work cross-functionally.
• Ability to document technical findings for various audiences.

Responsibilities

• Develop tools and infrastructure for Red Team assessments.
• Participate in security assessments to find vulnerabilities.
• Communicate findings and recommendations to stakeholders.

Skills

Information security expertise

Offensive security

Strong communication skills

Knowledge of cloud infrastructure

Programming in Golang, Python, Java, JavaScript, C++, C

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.

The Red Team in the Security Foundations org is responsible for conducting security assessments against Snowflake’s diverse cloud environment and finding vulnerabilities in software, systems, and networks.

In this role, you will execute security assessments across Snowflake’s corporate and product environments. You will partner with cross-functional teams to communicate gaps discovered during engagements and help drive remediation. You will develop tools, perform security research, and build infrastructure to augment the Red Team’s capabilities.

Our ideal candidate wakes up each morning thinking about different parts of the business that can benefit from security assessments. Their goal is to identify relevant security risks and help the business understand them so they can build effective defenses and protect Snowflake customers and their data.

Responsibilities

• Develop tools, methodologies, and infrastructure to support Red Team engagements in a variety of cloud environments and novel platforms
• Participate in security assessments against a diverse cloud environment and find vulnerabilities in software, systems, and networks
• Set scope, objectives, and timelines for security assessments and leverage data to create meaningful 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

Minimum Qualifications

• 4+ years experience working in an information security discipline, preferably with a focus in offensive security
• You have a continuously learning mindset with a desire to dive and explore a wide range of security domains
• Strong communications skills to comfortably work cross-functionally across the organization
• Ability to document findings from engagements and create a narrative for technical and executive audiences
• Knowledge of common bugs or misconfigurations in software and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, and Azure)
• Experience reading and writing code in one of the following languages:
  • Golang
  • Python
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • C++
  • C

Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ years experience working in an information security discipline, preferably with a focus in offensive security
• Prior experience executing Red Teams in a high growth, cloud native technology company
• Contributions to the security community, such as open source tools, research, papers, conference talks, etc.
• You can demonstrate a strong background in one of the following languages:
  • Golang
  • Python
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • C++
  • C

Compensation

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $176,000 - $253,000.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Flexible spending & health savings account
• At least 12 paid holidays
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Employee assistance program
• Other company benefits