Senior Security Foundations Engineer (AI & Cloud)

Snowflake, Inc; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 287,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Plan

Paid Holidays

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Health Savings Account

Job summary

Snowflake, Inc. is seeking an Anti-Abuse Software Engineer to design and implement security primitives and scalable defenses across a multi-cloud platform. You will join the Anti-Abuse team to shape the roadmap and deliver secure engineering practices in a fast-moving environment.

You will design and implement detections, risk scoring, and real-time protections against account takeover, AI abuse, and data exfiltration while collaborating with product, engineering, and security teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in software development with JavaScript, Java, Python, C, C++, or Go.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, or a similar language for building detections and data pipelines.
• Experience designing, testing, and maintaining software solutions focused on security.
• Experience leading projects independently and setting technical direction.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale security-by-default capabilities that protect Snowflake products across a complex multi-cloud environment.
• Develop intelligent security platforms and services that leverage AI/ML and risk scoring to identify, prioritize, and respond to security threats and policy violations.
• Build real-time detection and prevention systems to defend against account compromise, AI abuse, and data exfiltration through adaptive enforcement and granular policy controls.
• Create security intelligence and monitoring capabilities that detect suspicious account activity, generate actionable insights, and enable timely response.
• Partner across other Security teams, Engineering, and Product to define security strategy, influence product design, and drive the adoption of secure engineering practices.
• Raise the engineering bar by setting standards for system design, code quality, operational excellence, and scalable security architecture within the Security Foundations organization.

Skills

JavaScript

Java

Python

C

C++

Go

SQL

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree or PhD (preferred)

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Snowflake, Inc. is seeking an Anti-Abuse Software Engineer to design and implement security primitives and scalable defenses across a multi-cloud platform. You will join the Anti-Abuse team to shape the roadmap and deliver secure engineering practices in a fast-moving environment.

You will design and implement detections, risk scoring, and real-time protections against account takeover, AI abuse, and data exfiltration while collaborating with product, engineering, and security teams.