"Snowflake internal staff do not have access to read customer data"
Do engineers in Snowflake have access to production systems?
Do engineers in Snowflake have access to production systems?
Many enterprise customers additionally use standard third party crypto libraries to tokenise and/or encrypt sensitive fields before storage in any warehouse/database such as Snowflake or Redshift.
This is a similar principle to using client-side encryption for S3. The infra provider (AWS in that case) can never read the data.