Anti-Abuse Senior Software Engineer, Product Security

Snowflake
Remote
RemoteCareer-pivot friendly

Why this role

Pace
Fast Paced
The role requires rapid testing of emerging capabilities to discover more effective ways to deliver results, indicating a fast-paced environment where quick iterations are key.
Collaboration
High
The job involves working closely with other teams to set the anti-abuse roadmap and illustrate risks to cross-functional teams, highlighting the need for strong collaboration skills.
Autonomy
High
Engineers are expected to help redefine the future of how work gets done, suggesting a high level of autonomy in decision-making and project execution.
Decision Impact
Team
Designing and deploying anti-abuse controls that mitigate abuse activity across the ecosystem implies that decisions made in this role can significantly impact the security and trustworthiness of the platform.
Role Level
Team Lead
The job requires a deep understanding of abuse patterns, insider threats, and the ability to communicate these risks effectively, indicating a complex and multifaceted role.
Career Pivot Friendly
Welcomes transferable skills
Individuals with a background in security engineering or threat hunting can easily transition into this role, leveraging their experience in identifying and mitigating risks.

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • Design and deploy 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
  • 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
Typical background
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field4+ years of experience in anti-abuse space, insider threats, detections, threat hunting, and incident response

Transferable backgrounds

  • Coming from Security Engineer at a financial institution
    proficiency in Python and SQL · ability to assess abuse risks within applications
    Experience in financial security can be directly applied to protecting data and applications in a cloud environment.
  • Coming from Threat Intelligence Analyst at a cybersecurity firm
    understanding of common abuse patterns · ability to communicate abuse risks
    A background in threat intelligence provides the necessary skills to identify and mitigate risks in a cloud-based platform.
  • Coming from Product Security Specialist at a tech startup
    designing anti-abuse solutions · performing source code reviews
    Experience in product security and code reviews is highly relevant to developing and implementing security measures for Snowflake.

Skills & requirements

Required

Anti-abuse Space ExperienceInsider ThreatsDetectionsThreat HuntingIncident ResponseCommon Abuse PatternsPythonSQLSource Code ReviewsAssessing Engineering DesignsCommunicating Abuse RisksDesigning And Implementing Anti-abuse Solutions

Preferred

Cloud EnvironmentsMl-based Detection SystemsFeature EngineeringAnomaly Detection MethodsMaster's Degree Or Phd In Computer Science

Stack & domain

PythonSQLJavaGoSecurityData AnalyticsMachine Learning

About the role

As an Anti-Abuse Senior Software Engineer at Snowflake, you'll design and implement systems that safeguard the platform and its users from various forms of abuse, working in a dynamic environment that values innovation and collaboration.

Original posting from Snowflake via Ashby

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.

Anti-Abuse Senior Software Engineer, Product Security

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 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 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.

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 http://careers.snowflake.com

Source: Snowflake careers (Ashby)

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