Senior Security Engineer, Incident Response

Snowflake; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake seeks a Senior Security Engineer focused on Product Security Incident Response to lead AI-focused IR across Cortex AI, Snowflake Intelligence, and data pipelines. You will architect and implement incident response capabilities, drive security playbooks, and partner with AI and security teams to embed security from design through deployment.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in information security, incident command for product incidents, and experience securing AI/ML systems in cloud

Qualifications

• 5+ years of information security experience, incident response or product security.
• Experience as incident commander for product-focused security incidents.
• Experience leading or building an application or security engineering program.
• Experience with threat modeling and security testing for AI attack surfaces.
• Familiarity with data governance in LLMs, RAG, agentic systems.
• Cloud-native environments (AWS/Azure/GCP) knowledge.
• SQL proficiency; experience with automation and Python.
• Strong communication to translate risk into guidance.
• Empathy for developer experience to ship securely.

Responsibilities

• Lead incident response for product-level AI security events.
• Integrate IR into AI product pipelines from design to deployment.
• Define AI abuse response strategies and playbooks.
• Address tech debt to ensure IR readiness in Cortex/agentic tech.
• Represent IR to cloud eng, AI platform teams, and customers.
• Secure AI-native codebases across multi-cloud environments.
• Guide secure architecture for high-impact AI features.
• Design and manage response capabilities in AI Infra.
• Drive security outcomes for Snowflake customers.

Skills

Incident response

Security engineering

Product security

AI security

Cloud-native

Python

SQL

Communication

Developer empathy

Bachelor's degree

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

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, 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.

This application window is expected to be open until September 11, 2026. This opportunity will remain posted based on business needs, which may be before or after the specified date.

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.

How do you want to make your impact?