Principal Engineer, Identity Data Security and Trust

Snowflake
Menlo Park
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 264,000 - 379,500 annuallyFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 12+ yearsSkills: ["Java","Go","C++","AWS","GCP","Azure","TLS","Zero Trust","DLP"]

Lead architectural initiatives for Snowflake’s Data Movement Policy (DMP) and Data Exfiltration Protection (DXP) across multi-cloud/hybrid environments. Drive design of perimeter controls, policy unification, and scalable, low-latency data movement governance while mentoring senior engineers and aligning security strategy with product goals.

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Snowflake
Snowflake
3 months ago

Principal Engineer, Identity Data Security and Trust

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Job Summary

Lead architectural initiatives for Snowflake’s Data Movement Policy (DMP) and Data Exfiltration Protection (DXP) across multi-cloud/hybrid environments. Drive design of perimeter controls, policy unification, and scalable, low-latency data movement governance while mentoring senior engineers and aligning security strategy with product goals.
Location: Menlo Park
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Architectural leadership: Lead the design and implementation of the Data Movement Policy (DMP) framework for complex multi-cloud environments.
  • •DXP strategy: Define the roadmap for Data Exfiltration Protection and enhance ingress/egress controls and anomaly detection for data egress.
  • •Policy unification: Unify Context-Aware Access policies with egress perimeter controls to create a single policy engine for data movement.
  • •Design specification: Author and review design documents for DMP and Perimeter Policy ensuring reliability, low latency, and auditability.
  • •Mentorship: Guide senior engineers across multiple teams to foster security-first engineering and rigorous design standards.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 264,000 - 379,500 annually

Key Requirements

  • •12+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in a principal or architect role focusing on infrastructure or security.
  • •Deep understanding of network security protocols (TLS/SSL, HTTP/S, DNS), Zero Trust architectures, and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) technologies.
  • •Proven track record designing and deploying high-scale distributed systems (Java, Go, or C++).
  • •Strong experience with cloud-native security controls in AWS, GCP, or Azure (e.g., VPC Service Controls, Private Link).
  • •Effective deployment of AI models and tooling to improve team productivity and execution.
Experience:12+ yearsCloud securityDistributed systemsSecurityAI tooling
Skills:JavaGoC++AWSGCPAzureTLSZero TrustDLP
Tech Stack:JavaGoC++AWSGCPAzureTLSZero TrustDLP

Company Brief

Snowflake
Provides a cloud-native data platform for data warehousing, data engineering, data science, and analytics, enabling organizations to store, process, and share large-scale data across multiple cloud providers with elastic scalability and performance.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Bozeman, United States
Founded: 2012
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