Senior Software Engineer (AI Security)

Location: Hybrid in Bellevue, Washington or Menlo Park, California

Salary: $200,000–$287,500 per year

Company

Snowflake provides a cloud data platform and is developing security foundations for a large-scale, multi-cloud environment.

What you will do

• Design, build, and scale security-by-default capabilities across Snowflake products and cloud environments.
• Develop AI/ML-powered security platforms and risk-scoring services to identify, prioritize, and respond to threats and policy violations.
• Build real-time systems for detecting and preventing account compromise, AI abuse, and data exfiltration.
• Create security intelligence and monitoring capabilities that detect suspicious account and user activity and support timely response.
• Partner with Security, Engineering, and Product teams to define strategy and promote secure engineering practices.
• Set standards for system design, code quality, operational excellence, and scalable security architecture.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of software development experience with JavaScript, Java, Python, C, C++, or Go.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, or a similar language for building detections and data pipelines.
• Experience designing, testing, and maintaining security-focused software solutions.
• Experience leading projects independently and setting technical direction.
• Ability to work in a hybrid arrangement in Bellevue, Washington, or Menlo Park, California.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, and Azure infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with static analysis, dynamic analysis, authentication and access management, DDoS mitigation, or security scanning.
• Background in secure software development lifecycle practices.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills for cross-functional partnerships.

Culture & Benefits

• Ownership and collaboration are emphasized across the engineering organization.
• Engineers have opportunities to innovate, drive impact, and influence the roadmap.
• The role focuses on foundational security capabilities rather than legacy point solutions.
• Work involves adversarial engineering challenges across fraud, account takeover, data exfiltration, and emerging AI security threats.