Principal Software Engineer, Anti-Abuse

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the long-term technical vision for platform-wide abuse and fraud detection.
• Architect and scale low-latency telemetry pipelines and risk-scoring engines across multi-cloud environments.
• Design proactive anti-abuse controls for Snowpark, Data Sharing, Marketplace, Cortex AI, and other high-risk capabilities.
• Model emerging abuse techniques including compute abuse, cryptocurrency mining, bot-driven account creation, credential stuffing, and illicit network traffic routing.
• Build mitigation systems that throttle, challenge, or isolate abusive workloads and malicious actors.
• Mentor staff and senior engineers and influence architectural standards across platform teams.
• Partner with product managers, infrastructure teams, and security researchers to embed safety controls into product roadmaps.

Requirements

• 12+ years of software engineering experience in distributed systems, cloud platform infrastructure, or security engineering, including significant anti-abuse, fraud detection, platform trust, or threat mitigation experience.
• Proven experience 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.
• Experience building streaming event processing, anomaly detection, behavioral heuristic, or graph-based syndicate detection systems at enterprise scale.
• Experience modeling threat vectors across account lifecycles and understanding attacker economics and mechanics.
• Exceptional cross-functional collaboration skills with product, infrastructure, and security teams.
• Bachelor’s, master’s, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, or equivalent practical experience.
• Preferred experience with anti-abuse systems for multi-tenant cloud or SaaS platforms, AI/LLM abuse vectors, zero-trust or defense-in-depth architectures, fraud detection or adversarial ML research, and multi-cloud detection and response systems.

Benefits

• Salary and benefits information is provided on the Snowflake Careers Site for jobs located in the United States.