Snowflake

Security Architect, Applied Field Engineering

US-CA-Menlo Park. Posted 14 days ago

The role

You will drive strategic customer engagements to build security architecture foundations across Identity, Data, and Infrastructure. You will help customers transition to a unified Security Data Architecture and support secure AI adoption using Snowflake Cortex.

What you will do

  • Drive strategic engagements focused on Security Architecture
  • Support customer strategy for secure AI adoption using Snowflake Cortex
  • Architect trusted Agentic AI frameworks
  • Deploy Cortex Guard and AI Observability
  • Ensure AI governance via RBAC and data masking
  • Deliver workshops to transition customers to advanced SIEM Augmentation and Cybersecurity Data Lakes
  • Build repeatable reference architectures for Identity, Data Governance, and Encryption
  • Guide customers through BC/DR journeys and multi-region deployment patterns
  • Create technical content and tooling to showcase security best practices
  • Influence product roadmaps by translating customer needs into feedback

Required qualifications

  • 5+ years of industry experience in Data, Security, Networking, Infrastructure or AI Engineering
  • Strong technical communications skills for demos, whiteboarding, and presentations
  • Ability to act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and enterprise architects
  • Deep understanding of LLM security risks and mitigation strategies
  • Expertise in governing Autonomous Agents and human-in-the-loop controls
  • Mastery of Differential Privacy, Data Masking, and Secure Sandboxing
  • Proficiency in platform level logging, monitoring, and distributed tracing
  • Expertise in modern authentication/authorization protocols and RBAC models
  • Hands-on expertise in securing cloud and hybrid network architectures
  • Hands-on expertise with SQL, Python, and APIs
  • Proficiency in securing the container lifecycle and managing secrets within Kubernetes
  • Strong background in aligning security programs with regulatory frameworks

Nice to have

  • Understanding of emerging AI regulations (e.g., EU AI Act)
  • Familiarity with how Snowflake’s AI Trust Center maps to SOC2, HIPAA, and HITRUST
  • CISSP

About the company

Snowflake is an AI and BI platform powering the era of the agentic enterprise. The company seeks to redefine the future of how work gets done through innovation.