Senior Software Engineer - Security Foundations

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.

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer for our Anti-Abuse team within Security Foundations. This team is responsible for protecting Snowflake and our customers from abuse on the Snowflake platform — building foundational security primitives across a complex multi-cloud environment to combat fraud, account takeovers, data exfiltration, and AI security threats at the scale of Snowflake’s hyper-growth.

• 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 & user activity, generate actionable insights, and enable timely response

• Partner across Security, Engineering, and Product teams to define security strategy, influence product design, and drive 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

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

• 5+ years of experience in software development with one or more of the following: 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 with a security focus

• A track record of leading projects independently and setting technical direction

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

• Experience working with infrastructure across major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)

• Hands-on experience with security primitives including static analysis, dynamic analysis, authentication and access management, DDoS mitigation, or security scanning

• Background in secure software development lifecycle (SDLC) practices

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills for cross-functional partnerships