Principal Software Engineer, Anti-Abuse

The role

You will serve as the lead technical architect defining the technical strategy for abuse prevention, detection, and response across the Snowflake ecosystem. You will design and deploy proactive controls for high-risk capabilities and architect high-throughput telemetry pipelines.

What you will do

• Define and drive the long-term technical vision for abuse and fraud detection across the Snowflake platform
• Partner with product and engineering teams to design and deploy anti-abuse controls for new surfaces
• Architect and scale high-throughput, low-latency telemetry pipelines and risk-scoring engines
• Model emerging abuse techniques including trial compute abuse, cryptocurrency mining, and bot-driven account creation
• Design intelligent mitigation systems to throttle, challenge, or isolate abusive workloads
• Mentor staff and senior engineers and influence architectural standards across adjacent platform teams

Required qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience in distributed systems, cloud platform infrastructure, or security engineering
• Significant time dedicated to anti-abuse, fraud detection, platform trust, or threat mitigation
• Proven track record architecting mission-critical, 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
• Demonstrated ability to build streaming event processing, anomaly detection, behavioral heuristic engines, or graph-based syndicate detection systems at enterprise scale
• Strong intuition for attacker economics and mechanics
• Experience modeling threat vectors across account lifecycles
• Ability to partner with product managers, infrastructure teams, and security researchers
• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, or equivalent practical experience

Nice to have

• 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 for compute runtimes
• Published research or industry contributions in fraud detection, adversarial ML, or platform trust and safety
• Experience operating detection and response systems across multiple cloud providers simultaneously

About the company

Snowflake is powering the era of the agentic enterprise. The company is growing fast and scaling its team to enable and accelerate growth.