Principal Software Engineer, Anti-Abuse

Snowflake is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the technical strategy for abuse prevention, detection, and response across the Snowflake platform. The Anti-Abuse team protects Snowflake and its customers from abuse, focusing on high-risk capabilities such as Snowpark, Data Sharing, Cortex AI, and next-generation cloud engineering challenges.

• Define and drive the long-term technical vision for abuse and fraud detection across the platform.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to design and deploy anti-abuse controls for new surfaces.
• Architect high-throughput, low-latency telemetry pipelines and risk-scoring engines.
• Model emerging abuse techniques and design intelligent mitigation systems.
• Mentor staff and senior engineers and influence architectural standards.

• 12+ years of software engineering experience in distributed systems, cloud platform infrastructure, or security engineering.
• Proven track record architecting large-scale distributed services in Java, C++, or Python.
• Deep experience designing controls for code-execution runtimes, multi-tenant compute environments, cloud APIs, or data platforms.
• Ability to build streaming event processing, anomaly detection, behavioral heuristic engines, or graph-based syndicate detection systems.
• Strong intuition for attacker economics and mechanics.
• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, or equivalent practical experience.

• Experience building anti-abuse systems for multi-tenant cloud platforms or SaaS-at-scale environments.
• Familiarity with AI/LLM abuse vectors.
• Track record of designing zero-trust or defense-in-depth architectures.
• Published research in fraud detection, adversarial ML, or platform trust and safety.
• Experience operating detection and response systems across multiple cloud providers.

Salary range: $264,000 – $379,500 USD per year. For benefits information, visit the Snowflake Careers Site.