Making Snowflake permissions actually make sense
Original: Our Top 7 Snowflake RBAC Best Practices
May 29, 2025
18 min read
Guide
Intermediate
Summary
Best practices for implementing secure and governed data infrastructure, including role-based access controls, encryption, audit logging, and GDPR/CCPA compliance policies.
Who This Is For
Data Engineers
Analytics Engineers
Business Analysts
Key Takeaways
- Apply the Principle of Least Privilege to give users exactly the permissions they need, nothing more
- Structure your RBAC using three role types: Access roles for database permissions, Functional roles for humans, and Service roles for tools
- Start simple with READ and READWRITE access roles for each database as your building blocks
- Design Functional roles around actual job functions like DATA_ANALYST or DATA_ENGINEER
- Use Service roles for third-party tools and BI platforms that need database access
Tools & Technologies
Snowflake Account Roles Database Roles RBAC (Role-Based Access Control)
Topics Covered
data-security data-governance access-control data-privacy
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