Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Engineering Manager role sits at a core layer of the SaaS stack: service identity and secret management. In a multi-tenant cloud platform like Snowflake’s, these capabilities become shared infrastructure that every product and service depends on, shaping how securely the platform scales across regions and workloads. The scope—authorization frameworks, key management, and developer-facing security libraries—signals work that influences the entire engineering organization rather than a single application area.
For a SaaS career, the value is in leading “paved road” security: building primitives that standardize how teams authenticate, authorize, and handle secrets across many services. That kind of platform security experience transfers across modern SaaS companies that run distributed systems, operate under compliance pressure, and need consistent controls without slowing delivery. It also builds fluency in cross-team adoption, where success is measured by usability, reliability, and broad integration.
This is best suited to an experienced engineering leader who enjoys setting direction while staying close to technical execution. It fits someone comfortable balancing roadmap decisions with operational rigor, and who prefers work that requires stakeholder alignment across multiple product and infrastructure groups. An interest in enabling other engineers through shared tooling is a strong signal of fit.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level.
ABOUT THE JOB:
The Product Security organization ensures that Snowflake products are built and operated with the highest security. The Service Identity and Secret Management team builds the foundational security services and libraries that empower all Snowflake engineers to build and operate secure products at scale. Our mission is simple: solve the hardest security challenges so other teams don’t have to, ensuring security, reliability, and quality across the Snowflake AI Data Cloud.
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead this team and shape the vision, strategy, and execution of Snowflake’s core security infrastructure. This is a high-impact role building the systems that underpin service identity, authorization, key management, and secret management across Snowflake’s global platform.
As the leader of this team, you will drive both strategy and execution, guide and grow engineering talent, and work cross-functionally to deliver critical security capabilities used by every engineer across the company.
AS ENGINEERING MANAGER, YOU WILL:
Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of software engineers working on security infrastructure.
Define and drive the strategic roadmap for Snowflake’s scalable security infrastructure—covering service identity, authorization frameworks, secret management, and key management.
Collaborate deeply with engineering teams across the organization to understand their needs and ensure frictionless adoption of security tooling.
Design and deliver security services and development libraries that are broadly adopted across the company and support mission-critical workloads.
Manage team priorities, execution, and delivery, ensuring high engineering rigor and operational excellence.
OUR IDEAL ENGINEERING MANAGER WILL HAVE:
2+ years of experience managing engineering teams, ideally focused on security or platform infrastructure.
10+ years of software engineering experience building distributed systems or security-critical services.
Deep expertise in security technologies, including identity and access management, access control groups and frameworks, service identity, cryptographic libraries and secret management solutions
Experience building foundational developer-facing services and libraries that are used broadly across an engineering organization.
Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
Knowledge of security engineering, computer and network security, authentication, security protocols, and applied cryptography.
Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.
Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.
How do you want to make your impact?
For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com
