Senior Red Team Engineer

About the role

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

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?

For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com http://careers.snowflake.com