Senior Security Engineer, Incident Response

Snowflake

Menlo Park (CA)

On-site

USD 176,000 - 253,000

Full time

11 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid holidays

Job summary

Snowflake seeks an experienced Senior Security Engineer focused on AI Incident Response. You will lead product-level IR for AI security events and integrate security across Cortex, Cortex Agents, and Snowflake Intelligence.

You’ll craft playbooks, manage IR readiness, and collaborate with cloud teams to secure multi-cloud deployments. You will shape AI security posture, oversee threat modeling, and partner with engineers to embed secure design and automated response into the AI product stack,

Qualifications

5+ years of information security experience (incident response or security engineering preferred).
Experience as incident commander for product-focused security incidents.
Experience leading or building an application security program with AI/ML focus.
Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and SaaS security.
Knowledge of AI threat vectors including prompt injection and model abuse.

Responsibilities

Lead product-level incident response for AI/security events.
Embed security requirements from design through deployment for Cortex/AI features.
Develop AI abuse response playbooks for LLM misuse and adversarial inputs.
Address tech debt to ensure IR readiness in Cortex and agentic architectures.
Collaborate with cloud engineering, AI platform teams, and customer-facing units.
Design and manage IR capabilities in Snowflake's AI infra and data pipelines.
Drive tooling for detection and response at Snowflake scale.
Deliver measurable security outcomes for Snowflake customers.

Skills

Incident response

Security engineering

AI/ML security

Threat modeling

Cloud-native security

Python

SQL

Communication

Empathy for developer experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Python

Job description

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.

We are hiring a Senior Security Engineer, dedicated to Product Security Incident Response. In this role, you will lead and architect Snowflake's product-integrated Incident Response strategy, with a primary focus on AI and LLM security. You'll design, plan, and drive the implementation of incident response capabilities across Snowflake's AI product surface - including Cortex AI, Cortex Agents, Snowflake Intelligence, and the data pipelines that power them.

AS A SENIOR SECURITY ENGINEER, AI INCIDENT RESPONSE AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:

Lead incident response for product-level security events, with deep focus on AI-specific threat vectors including prompt injection, model abuse, agent hijacking, and data exfiltration through AI workloads.
Integrate IR into AI product pipelines - work directly with teams shipping Cortex features, Snowflake Intelligence, and AI-powered developer experiences to embed security requirements from design through deployment.
Develop and codify our AI abuse response strategy - defining detection, containment, and remediation playbooks for LLM misuse, adversarial inputs, and AI-assisted attacks targeting Snowflake customers.
Address tech debt across the AI product stack, ensuring that new Cortex and agentic architectures meet IR readiness requirements from the ground up.
Represent the IR team to cloud engineering, AI platform teams, corporate security, and customer-facing business units.
Secure modern AI-native codebases operating across multi-cloud environments - including container-based inference services, RAG pipelines, vector stores, and agent orchestration layers.
Partner with world-class AI and security engineering teams, providing expert guidance on secure architecture for high-impact AI features and customer-facing AI capabilities.
Design and manage response capabilities built into Snowflake's AI operational infrastructure - from model serving endpoints to Cortex Search indexes and Snowpark ML pipelines.
Lead with data, code, and automation - build tooling that accelerates detection and response for product security incidents at Snowflake scale.
Drive meaningful security outcomes for the customers and enterprises trusting Snowflake with their most sensitive data and AI workloads.

OUR IDEAL SENIOR SECURITY ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

5+ years of experience in information security, primarily in incident response, security engineering, or product/application security (preferred).
Direct experience serving as incident commander for product focused security incidents.
Experience leading or actively building an application or security engineering program, with a clear point of view on securing AI/ML systems.
Experience with threat modeling and security testing across AI attack surfaces, including prompt injection, indirect injection, model inversion, embedding extraction, and supply chain attacks on AI dependencies.
Familiarity with the unique data governance and security challenges introduced by LLMs, RAG architectures, and agentic systems.
Working knowledge of cloud-native environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and the threat landscape specific to SaaS and AI platforms.
SQL proficiency, plus experience building automation and tools with common programming languages (Python preferred).
Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate security risk into actionable guidance for product teams.
Empathy for developer experience, helping AI engineers ship securely rather than slowing them down.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.

BONUS POINTS FOR THE FOLLOWING:

Experience securing AI/ML infrastructure, including model serving, vector databases, embedding pipelines, API gateways, and LLM-integrated application architectures.
Experience building agentic incident response capabilities, including skills, agents, and pipelines.
Understanding of current attacker TTPs, including emerging AI-specific techniques such as adversarial ML, agent manipulation, and LLM jailbreaking in enterprise contexts.
Familiarity with CI/CD and secure release lifecycle patterns, with an emphasis on building security into AI feature pipelines.
Preferred certifications: GCIA, GCIH, GCSA, GDAT, CISSP/GISP, or cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP).

WHY JOIN OUR SECURITY INCIDENT RESPONSE TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE?

This is a chance to do incident response at the frontier of AI security, on products that thousands of enterprises rely on. You will work alongside strong AI and security engineering teams, shape how Snowflake responds to novel LLM and agentic threats, and build the tooling and playbooks that define response for AI-native systems. The work is high-impact and highly visible, with direct influence on the trust customers place in Snowflake's AI capabilities.

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company's confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company's data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.

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.

The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:

The estimated base salary range for this role is $176,000 - $253,000.
Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake's bonus and equity plan.

The successful candidate's starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location. This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: