Anti-Abuse Security Engineer, Product Security

Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential - and people too. With a culture that's all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology - and careers - to the next level.

Build the future of data. 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 anti-abuse roadmap and Product Security while working closely with other teams at Snowflake.
As an 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 for Snowflake features, including compromised account detections, data exfiltration detections, LLMs, the newest, highest risk, features such as Snowflake Intelligence, data sharing, and future engineering challenges as Snowflake grows.

• Work directly with senior engineers and management to illustrate abuse risks, threats, exploits, to guide business decisions.

• 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 AppSec, threat modeling, and/or secure architecture.

• Understanding of common abuse patterns (e.g., ATO, scraping, 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, cloud, application security, network security, and/or infrastructure security, LLMs.

  • Applied knowledge of securing AWS, Azure, and other public cloud providers

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

  • Working knowledge of malware detection and best practices

• 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 to senior leadership

  • 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.

• Skilled in writing, debugging, and optimizing SQL queries to support data-driven decisions and operations.

• 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.

WHY YOU SHOULD WORK FOR US:
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?

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?

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 $160,000 - $230,000.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake's bonus and equity plan.

The successful candidate's starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location. 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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