Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Security foundations work is increasingly central to modern SaaS, where trust is a product feature and platform abuse can undermine availability, data integrity, and customer confidence. This role sits in that critical layer, focused on anti abuse capabilities inside a multi cloud data and AI platform. The remit reflects how mature SaaS businesses operationalise security as shared infrastructure, not a one off project, and how threats now span fraud, account takeover, data exfiltration, and AI misuse.
For a long term SaaS career, the position offers experience that transfers across cloud native product companies: building security primitives that other engineering teams rely on, creating real time detection and enforcement systems, and using data and risk scoring to drive decisions. Working at platform scale also builds muscle in designing for reliability, observability, and safe defaults, all of which are foundational skills for senior engineering and security leadership in SaaS.
The role suits engineers who enjoy ambiguous adversarial problem spaces and prefer building systems over writing policies. It will fit someone comfortable partnering across product and engineering to influence design, and who wants ownership over technical direction while still operating within a larger security organisation.
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.
Sr. Software Engineer, Security Foundations
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 roadmap and build foundational security primitives while working closely with other teams at Snowflake.
As an Anti-Abuse Software Engineer, you will design and build necessary software solutions within a multi-cloud env. across a wide range of problem areas that proactively protect our platform and users from adversarial threats. You will build and scale solution and mitigation frameworks to combat fraud, account takeovers (ATO), data exfiltrations and AI security threats, tackling the most complex engineering challenges of Snowflake’s hyper-growth.
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.
Responsibilities
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 activity, generate actionable insights, and enable timely response.
Partner across other Security teams, Engineering, and Product to define security strategy, influence product design, and drive the 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.
Minimum qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
5+ years of experience in software development working with one or more of the following languages: JavaScript, Java, Python, C, C++, Go.
Proficiency in Python, SQL, or a similar language for building detections and data pipelines.
Experience designing, testing, and maintaining software solutions focused on security.
Experience leading projects independently and setting technical direction.
Preferred qualifications
Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
Experience working with infrastructure from major cloud vendors (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
Experience with secure software development lifecycle or security primitives, including but not limited to static analysis, dynamic analysis, authentication and access management, DDoS or security scanning.
Effective interpersonal and communication skills.
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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