Staff Product Security Engineer — Secure-by-Design Leader

Snowflake; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 236,000 - 339,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Product Security to set technical direction for product security across engineering teams and design secure-by-design systems at scale.

You will lead threat modeling, build security-critical services, mentor engineers, and partner with product leaders to embed security into the development lifecycle. The role offers competitive compensation and benefits.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of software engineering experience with emphasis on product security.
• Experience designing secure, large-scale distributed systems.
• Proven ability to drive cross-team technical decisions.
• Hands-on threat modeling and secure design reviews.
• Familiarity with secure development lifecycle and remediation of vulnerabilities.
• Proficiency in Java, Go, Rust, C++, or Python.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for product security across multiple engineering teams, influencing architecture decisions before code is written
• Design and build security-critical services, frameworks, and controls that other engineering teams adopt as defaults
• Lead threat modeling and security design reviews for the platform's most complex and high-risk systems
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to embed secure-by-design principles into the development lifecycle
• Investigate and drive resolution of the highest-severity security issues, then eliminate the underlying class of problem, not just the instance
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, raising 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, to scale the team's impact

Skills

Threat modeling

Secure architecture design

Cross-team influence

Secure-by-design practices

Distributed systems security

Programming: Java/Go/Rust/C++/Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Security tooling (AI-assisted)

Job description

Snowflake is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Product Security to set technical direction for product security across engineering teams and design secure-by-design systems at scale.

You will lead threat modeling, build security-critical services, mentor engineers, and partner with product leaders to embed security into the development lifecycle. The role offers competitive compensation and benefits.