Senior Security Engineer

Job#: 3022026

Job Description:
JOB DESCRIPTION

Anti-Abuse Security Engineer, Product Security

Build the future of data. The Anti-abuse team is responsible for protecting us and our customers from abuse on the our platforms. You will have the opportunity to help set the direction of the anti-abuse roadmap and Product Security while working closely with other teams.

As an Anti-Abuse Security

Engineer, you will design, build, and operate systems that protect our platform, customers, and data from abuse, misuse, and fraud. You'll work at the intersection of security engineering, data analytics, and machine learning, developing prevention controls, detections, and automation that mitigate abuse activity across our ecosystem.

We're at the forefront of the data revolution, committed to building the world's greatest data and applications platform. Our 'get it done' culture allows everyone at our client to have an equal opportunity to innovate on new ideas, create work with a lasting impact, and excel in a culture of collaboration.

YOU WILL:

• Understand the abuse risks faced by us and our customers.
• Design and deploy the anti-abuse controls for our features, including compromised account detections, data exfiltration detections, LLMs, the newest, highest risk, features such as Snowflake Intelligence, data sharing, and future engineering challenges.
• Work directly with senior engineers and management to illustrate abuse risks, threats, exploits, to guide business decisions.
• Research, plan, and build anti-abuse architectures for our products and features
  • Provide designs and reference implementations for new anti-abuse features
  • Research new services, controls, or features that can help protect the product and our customers from abuse.

OUR IDEAL ANTI-ABUSE SECURITY ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of experience with anti-abuse AppSec, threat modeling, and/or secure architecture.
• Understanding of common abuse patterns (e.g., ATO, scraping, spam, fraud, privilege misuse).
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, or a similar language for building detections and data pipelines.
• In-depth knowledge of anti-abuse solutions, cloud, application security, network security, and/or infrastructure security, LLMs.
  • Applied knowledge of securing AWS, Azure, and other public cloud providers
  • Experience performing source code reviews across various languages (e.g. Java, Go)
  • Working knowledge of malware detection and best practices
• Ability to assess engineering designs and architecture diagrams for abuse risks
  • Ability to assess abuse risks within an application or feature
  • Experience communicating abuse risks and roadmaps to senior leadership
  • Experience designing and implementing anti-abuse solutions
• Experience contributing to the security anti-abuse community such as presenting at conferences or meetups.

BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• Skilled in writing, debugging, and optimizing SQL queries to support data-driven decisions and operations.
• Experience with cloud environments (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure) and their security/abuse detection tooling.
• Familiarity with ML-based detection systems, feature engineering, or anomaly detection methods.

Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.

Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.