Running Snowflake in public sectors in different countries and regions, even in different industry verticals, requires us to build a compliant, secure, and auditable infrastructure. Many key design decisions are deeply rooted in the Snowflake product architecture. As a principal engineer, you will be responsible for leading several key areas and collaborating with various engineering groups in addition to the Regulatory & Sovereign Cloud team. To be successful as a lead in the area, you will need to have (and continue to build) a broad and in-depth knowledge base on cloud infrastructure, data security, privacy, and governance, and data residency in various aspects of Snowflake.

• Lead highly impactful initiatives from idea formulation to design and implementation.
• Innovate, design and build highly available, reliable and secured distributed services and solutions within the global Snowflake.
• Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding security, reliability, availability, and performance.
• Mentor and coach other engineers.

OUR IDEAL PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER - REGULATORY & SOVEREIGN CLOUD WILL HAVE:

• 15+ years of industry experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale distributed systems in production, with recent experience in building large scale cloud services.
• Deep knowledge and experience with different security areas like identity and access management, cryptography, network security, etc.
• Experience with database systems and database internals, such as query engines and optimizers are a big plus. 
• Strong fundamentals in computer science skills.
• Expert-level development skills in Java or C++.
• Knowledge of industry standard security concepts and protocols like SAML, SCIM, OAuth, RBAC, cryptography is a plus.
• Advanced degree in Computer Science or related degree.
• Ph.D. in the related field is a plus