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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.\nWe are hiring a Principal Software Engineer for our Anti-Abuse team. The Anti-Abuse team sits at the core of protecting Snowflake and our customers from abuse on the Snowflake Platform. 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In this role, you will be the lead technical architect responsible for defining and driving our technical strategy for abuse prevention, detection, and response across the entire Snowflake ecosystem.\nAS A PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER, ANTI-ABUSE AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:\nDefine and drive the long-term technical vision for abuse and fraud detection across the Snowflake platform, serving as the chief architect for platform-wide anti-abuse strategy\n\nPartner directly with product and engineering teams building Snowflake's newest and highest-risk surfaces (Snowpark user code execution runtimes, Data Sharing and Marketplace, AI/LLM services) to design and deploy robust anti-abuse controls from day one\n\nArchitect and scale high-throughput, low-latency telemetry pipelines and risk-scoring engines capable of analyzing millions of queries, sessions, and data transactions across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)\n\nContinuously model emerging abuse techniques, including trial compute abuse, cryptocurrency mining, bot-driven account creation, credential stuffing, and illicit network traffic routing\n\nDesign intelligent mitigation systems that automatically throttle, challenge, or isolate abusive workloads and malicious actors with near-zero false-positive impact on legitimate enterprise workloads\n\nRaise the technical bar across the engineering organization through mentorship of staff and senior engineers, and influence architectural standards across adjacent platform teams\n\nOUR IDEAL PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER, ANTI-ABUSE WILL HAVE:\n12+ years of software engineering experience in distributed systems, cloud platform infrastructure, or security engineering, with significant time dedicated to anti-abuse, fraud detection, platform trust, or threat mitigation\n\nProven track record architecting mission-critical, large-scale distributed services in Java, C++, or Python\n\nDeep experience designing controls for code-execution runtimes, multi-tenant compute environments, cloud APIs, or data platforms (e.g., mitigating compute hijacking, sandbox escapes, abuse of serverless functions, or network egress abuse)\n\nDemonstrated ability to build streaming event processing, anomaly detection, behavioral heuristic engines, or graph-based syndicate detection systems at enterprise scale\n\nStrong intuition for attacker economics and mechanics, with experience modeling threat vectors across account lifecycles (signup, trial, payment, execution, sharing)\n\nExceptional ability to partner with product managers, infrastructure teams, and security researchers to embed safety controls into high-velocity product roadmaps\n\nB.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, or equivalent practical experience\n\nBONUS POINTS FOR THE FOLLOWING:\nExperience building anti-abuse systems for multi-tenant cloud platforms or SaaS-at-scale environments\n\nFamiliarity with AI/LLM abuse vectors (prompt injection, model extraction, automated content generation for fraud)\n\nTrack record of designing zero-trust or defense-in-depth architectures for compute runtimes\n\nPublished research or industry contributions in fraud detection, adversarial ML, or platform trust and safety\n\nExperience operating detection and response systems across multiple cloud providers simultaneously\n\nWHY JOIN OUR ANTI-ABUSE TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE?\nThe Anti-Abuse team works at the intersection of platform security, distributed systems, and adversarial thinking. 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