Snowflake

Job Description - Senior Security Architect, Applied Field Engineering

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3 months ago
Seoul, Korea, SouthSenior

Responsibilities

  • Advise customers and engineering teams on secure, Korea-compliant Snowflake data and AI architectures, including localization and regional access controls.
  • Support customer security feature adoption and scope local-market security enhancements with Product Management and Engineering.
  • Design and manage security, networking, identity, privacy, governance, and compliance architectures for regulated Korean industries.
  • Build demonstrations, configure cloud environments, test Snowflake integrations, and develop security reference architectures and hardening guides.
  • Support CSAP certification and K-FSI safety evaluation activities, regulatory communications, audit assessments, evidence collection, and reassessments.
  • Collaborate with Sales, Product, Engineering, Marketing, Support, Field CTO, Enterprise AI, Generative AI, Data Engineering, and Applications teams.
  • Contribute to product marketing initiatives, conferences, trade shows, webinars, and industry events.

Requirements

  • 7-10+ years of hands-on information security experience, including at least 5+ years focused on cloud security architecture.
  • 10+ years of industry, customer-facing, and hands-on implementation experience focused on data, privacy, governance, networking, information security, and security technologies.
  • Native or professional business fluency in written and spoken Korean and professional-level English.
  • Experience with cloud security architecture on AWS, Azure, GCP, or Korean cloud providers such as Naver Cloud and NHN.
  • Experience designing physical and logical network separation architectures and data localization or residency compliance for highly regulated industries in South Korea.
  • Advanced knowledge of IAM/RBAC, OAuth, SCIM, TCP/IP, IP routing, DNS, proxies, NAT, firewalls, TLS, and PrivateLink.
  • Practical exposure to AI security and agentic identity frameworks covering AI agents, orchestrators, and LLM data pipelines.
  • Experience with audit gap assessments, control implementation, evidence collection, and surveillance or reassessment cycles.
  • Ability to build demonstrations, configure cloud environments, test Snowflake integrations, and create security reference architectures and hardening guides.
  • Knowledge of NIST, CIS, OWASP, and MITRE ATT&CK security frameworks.
  • Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Information Management Systems, or a related field; a master's degree is preferred.
  • Proven CSAP experience and direct experience with the K-FSI CSP Safety Evaluation process and South Korean privacy and cloud legislation are highly desired.
  • Experience with SQL, Python, APIs, Kubernetes, Terraform, GRC, information security auditing, SOC or threat hunting, and enterprise SaaS technical pre-sales is beneficial.
  • AWS, Azure, or GCP security or networking certifications and credentials such as CISSP, CISM, CISA, or K-ISMS-P Lead Auditor/Assessor are advantageous.

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Snowflake

About Snowflake

10,000+ employees

Snowflake builds a cloud-native data platform used by enterprises to store, integrate, share, and analyze data across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Its core products span data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, and governed data sharing, sold via consumption-based subscriptions. Founded in 2012 and publicly traded on the NYSE (SNOW) following a 2020 IPO, Snowflake supports analytics and data application workloads across industries.

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