Software Engineer Intern - Warsaw Security

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Paid, full-time internships

• Post-internship career opportunities (full-time or part-time)

• Exposure to a fast-paced, fun, and inclusive culture

• A chance to work with world-class security experts on challenging, high-impact projects

• Opportunity to provide meaningful contributions to a real system used by customers

• High level of access to supervisors (manager and mentor), detailed direction without micromanagement, feedback throughout your internship, and a final evaluation

• Treated as a full member of the Snowflake team: company meetings and activities, flexible hours, casual dress code, swag, and much more

• Warsaw office perks: catered lunches, access to recreational games, happy hours, company outings, and more

WHAT WE EXPECT

• Must be actively enrolled in an accredited college/university program during the internship period

• Desired majors: Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

• Required coursework: algorithms, data structures, and operating systems

• Recommended coursework: information security, cryptography, cloud computing, database systems, or distributed systems

• Duration: 4 months + recommended

• Strong programming skills in Python or Java

• Solid knowledge of data structures and algorithms; familiarity with ML/AI concepts is a plus

• Strong problem-solving ability and capacity to learn quickly in a dynamic environment

• Experience working as part of a team

• Dedication, curiosity, and a passion for security and technology

• Working proficiency in English (our team operates in an English-language environment)

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN/GAIN

• How to build enterprise-grade, reliable, and secure software services at cloud scale

• Hands-on experience across key security domains: Application Security, Infrastructure & Cloud Security, Security Engineering, Threat Detection & Response, and Compliance & Governance

• How to identify and remediate security vulnerabilities in large-scale distributed systems

• Experience building security tooling and automation using Python and Java

• Exposure to ML/AI techniques applied to security problems (anomaly detection, threat intelligence, etc.)

• Collaboration with product management and engineers to deliver customer-facing security features

• Practical experience with cloud infrastructure security on AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud

POSSIBLE TEAMS / WORK FOCUS AREAS

Teams: Application Security, Cloud & Infrastructure Security, Security Engineering, Threat Detection & Response, Compliance & Governance

Work areas:

• Security tooling and automation (Python, Java)

• Vulnerability detection and remediation in Snowflake's platform

• Algorithm and ML/AI-driven threat detection

• Cloud security posture and IAM controls

• Compliance automation and policy enforcement

Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

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