Principal Security Engineer - Threat Intelligence

Responsibilities

• Help define and mature the strategy for Threat Intelligence at Snowflake, including investments in people, processes, engineering, and AI-enabled capabilities
• Identify, profile, and track threat actors targeting Snowflake, customers, and partners
• Operationalize threat intelligence to prioritize security initiatives and drive action with relevant security teams
• Produce high-quality intelligence reports, assessments, and leadership-ready communications
• Engineer solutions to improve program efficiency, including automations, collection pipelines, and analyst tooling
• Build and improve AI-assisted intelligence workflows for report triage, signal enrichment, and summarization
• Partner with Threat Detection and Incident Response to convert intelligence into detections and threat hunts
• Mentor other engineers and analysts to raise technical depth and operational maturity

Requirements

• Significant experience in threat intelligence, cyber threat research, or intelligence engineering
• Experience researching and tracking sophisticated threat actors targeting cloud-native and SaaS environments
• Proficiency in writing code in high-level languages such as Python or Go to automate workflows
• Experience handling data programmatically using SQL and Python against large datasets
• Experience collaborating across multiple security functions and communicating with technical leadership
• Strong understanding of enterprise security controls, threat hunting, and detection methodologies
• Experience with one or more major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading or materially shaping a Threat Intelligence program at scale
• Experience building AI/ML-assisted security workflows
• Experience with data engineering, workflow orchestration, or production-grade systems
• Experience using Snowflake or equivalent cloud data platforms for large-scale analysis
• Experience presenting externally or publishing security research

About the Company

Snowflake has developed a world class cloud data platform that is effective, affordable and accessible to all data users. The Threat Intelligence team operates with a vision of proactively detecting threats based on risk and data-driven decisions.