Senior Software Engineer, Security Foundations

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

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.

Sr. Software Engineer, Security Foundations

Build the future of data and AI. Join the Snowflake team.

The Anti-abuse team at Snowflake is responsible for protecting Snowflake and our customers from abuse on the Snowflake platform. You will have the opportunity to help set the direction of the roadmap and build foundational security primitives while working closely with other teams at Snowflake.

As an Anti-Abuse Software Engineer, you will design and build necessary software solutions within a multi-cloud env. across a wide range of problem areas that proactively protect our platform and users from adversarial threats. You will build and scale solution and mitigation frameworks to combat fraud, account takeovers (ATO), data exfiltrations and AI security threats, tackling the most complex engineering challenges of Snowflake’s hyper-growth.

We’re at the forefront of the data revolution, committed to building the world’s greatest data and applications platform. Our “get it done” culture allows everyone at Snowflake to have an equal opportunity to innovate on new ideas, create work with a lasting impact, and excel in a culture of collaboration.

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.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in software development working with one or more of the following languages: JavaScript, Java, Python, C, C++, 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.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• Experience working with infrastructure from major cloud vendors (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.).
• Experience with secure software development lifecycle or security primitives, including but not limited to static analysis, dynamic analysis, authentication and access management, DDoS or security scanning.
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills.

For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com.

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

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $200,000 - $287,500.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan.

This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending & health savings account; at least 12 paid holidays; paid time off; parental leave; employee assistance program; and other company benefits.

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