Staff Security Engineer - Threat Detection at Snowflake

Department: Engineering

Compensation

$211,000 – $303,600/yr

Setup: Remote
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
Type: Full-time
Level: staff+
Posted: Aug 5, 2026

Description

Snowflake is hiring a fully remote Staff Security Engineer, Threat Detection for its Security team. The role focuses on building, maintaining, and evolving AI-assisted detections and automation pipelines, improving threat detection coverage and response efficiency, and partnering with Security and Engineering stakeholders. Candidates need 8+ years of relevant security engineering experience, strong Python or Go coding ability, experience with SQL, cloud providers, agent-based workflows, and production software. The role offers a base salary of $211,000 to $303,600 plus bonus and equity eligibility, along with medical, dental, vision, retirement, and other benefits.

Required Skills

Python
Go
SQL
CI/CD
LangGraph
AWS
Threat detection
Threat hunting
Detections as code

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: 8+ years of security engineering experience in threat detection, incident response, threat hunting, product security, or corporate security
Experience handling data programmatically with SQL and Python, including large-scale log and telemetry datasets
Experience writing production code with unit tests, version control, and CI/CD integration
Experience developing and operating agent-based or agentic workflows
Hands-on experience with a major cloud provider and its logging, monitoring, and security services
Familiarity with SaaS and workstation security risks including account compromise, data exfiltration, phishing, and supply chain attacks
Preferred Qualifications: Computer Science degree or equivalent practical experience
Experience applying GenAI and LLM-based approaches to security workflows
Experience with infrastructure as code and detections-as-code frameworks
Experience building production software or platforms processing high-volume data streams
Experience deploying detections at global scale
Experience with Snowflake or equivalent cloud data platforms and security analytics