Anti-Abuse Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Understand the abuse risks faced by Snowflake and our customers
• Design and deploy anti-abuse controls addressing risks such as Account Take Overs (ATO), data exfiltration, and code/data sharing risks
• 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 to protect the product and customers from abuse

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
• 4+ years of experience in anti-abuse, insider threats, detections, threat hunting, or incident response
• Understanding of common abuse patterns including ATO, exfiltration, insider threats, spam, fraud, and privilege misuse
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, or similar languages for building detections and data pipelines
• In-depth knowledge of anti-abuse solutions, network security, and/or infrastructure security
• Experience performing source code reviews in languages such as Java or Go
• Ability to assess engineering designs and architecture diagrams for abuse risks
• Experience communicating abuse risks and roadmaps
• Experience designing and implementing anti-abuse solutions

Preferred Qualifications

• 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
• Experience contributing to the security anti-abuse community through conferences or meetups

About the Company

Snowflake is building the world’s greatest data and applications platform, powering the era of the agentic enterprise through innovative data and AI solutions.