Senior Security Engineer - AI-Powered Cloud & App Security

Snap Inc.; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 157,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSU Equity

Job summary

Snap Inc. in Bellevue, WA is seeking a Security Engineer to design, implement, and scale security controls across infrastructure, applications, and cloud environments. You will lead threat modeling, code reviews, and automated tooling to improve compliance, observability, and governance.

Join a team focused on secure-by-design engineering, with opportunities to use AI tools and participate in incident response, vulnerability management, and security standards advancement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical work experience.
• 2+ years of post-Bachelor’s security related experience; or Master’s degree in a technical field + 1+ year of post-grad security related experience; or PhD in a relevant technical field
• Expertise in infrastructure security, enterprise security, access management, application security, detection and response, or spam and abuse

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and scale security controls across infrastructure, applications, identity, and cloud environments
• Conduct in-depth security assessments, threat modeling, and code reviews to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities
• Build automation, tooling, and systems that improve security compliance, observability, and governance
• Utilize AI tools and high velocity engineering workflows to design and ship scalable services while upholding rigorous standards for code correctness, security, and production ready quality code
• Partner with product, engineering, and operations teams to harden systems and reduce risk from design through deployment
• Investigate and respond to security incidents, conduct root cause analysis, and recommend remediation strategies
• Help define and evolve security standards, practices, and documentation to elevate the organization’s overall security maturity

Skills

Security engineering

Threat modeling

Automation

AI tooling

Programming (Python/Go/Java)

Security analysis

Security advocacy

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Vulnerability scanners

SIEM

EDR

Cloud security frameworks

Automation platforms

Job description

Snap Inc. in Bellevue, WA is seeking a Security Engineer to design, implement, and scale security controls across infrastructure, applications, and cloud environments. You will lead threat modeling, code reviews, and automated tooling to improve compliance, observability, and governance.

Join a team focused on secure-by-design engineering, with opportunities to use AI tools and participate in incident response, vulnerability management, and security standards advancement.