Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Anti-Abuse Senior Software Engineer role sits at a core pressure point for modern SaaS platforms: preventing misuse at scale without degrading legitimate customer experience. In a cloud data and AI environment, abuse patterns often blend identity compromise, data movement, and product feature misuse, making product security an engineering discipline tightly coupled to how the platform is designed and operated.
For a long-term SaaS career, the role builds durable leverage across security engineering, data analysis, and automation. Work that combines Python and SQL with detection engineering and architectural review translates well across subscription platforms where telemetry, user behavior, and shared infrastructure drive both risk and resilience. The remit also signals exposure to cross-functional security decision-making, where roadmaps are shaped alongside product and engineering stakeholders rather than handled as a downstream review step.
This position tends to suit senior engineers who prefer problem spaces with ambiguous signals and adversarial behavior, and who enjoy iterating between research, building controls, and operating them in production. It also fits professionals motivated by platform-level impact, where improving defenses can reduce customer-facing incidents and inform safer product design over time.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
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.
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?
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