Senior Anti-Abuse Security Engineer, Product Security

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.

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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 anti-abuse roadmap and Product Security while working closely with other teams at Snowflake.

As an Senior Anti-Abuse Security Engineer, you will design, build, and operate systems that protect our platform, customers, and data from abuse, misuse, and fraud. You’ll work at the intersection of security engineering, data analytics, and machine learning, developing prevention controls, detections, and automation that mitigate abuse activity across our ecosystem.

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.

AS AN ANTI-ABUSE SECURITY ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:

• Understand the abuse risks faced by Snowflake and our customers.

• Design and deploy the anti-abuse controls addressing risks such as Account Take Overs (ATO), data exfiltration, risk around code/data sharing, and other newest and highest future engineering challenges as Snowflake grows.

• Help illustrate abuse risks, threats and exploits to cross functional teams.

• Research, plan, and build anti-abuse architectures for Snowflake products and features

  • Provide designs and reference implementations for new anti-abuse features

  • Research new services, controls, or features that can help protect the product and our customers from abuse.

OUR IDEAL ANTI-ABUSE SECURITY ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.

• 4+ years of experience with anti-abuse space, insider threats, detections, threat hunting and incident response.

• Understanding of common abuse patterns (e.g., ATO, exfiltration, insider threats, , spam, fraud, privilege misuse).

• Proficiency in Python, SQL, or a similar language for building detections and data pipelines.

• In-depth knowledge of anti-abuse solutions, network security, and/or infrastructure security.

  • Experience performing source code reviews across various languages (e.g. Java, Go)

• Ability to assess engineering designs and architecture diagrams for abuse risks

  • Ability to assess abuse risks within an application or feature

  • Experience communicating abuse risks and roadmaps

  • Experience designing and implementing anti-abuse solutions

• Experience contributing to the security anti-abuse community such as presenting at conferences or meetups.

BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.

• Experience with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their security/abuse detection tooling.

• Familiarity with ML-based detection systems, feature engineering, or anomaly detection methods.

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?

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