Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Identity and access management sits at the heart of modern SaaS, where customer trust depends on secure authentication, precise authorization, and reliable governance at scale. This role is featured because it connects core security primitives with a cloud-native data platform, touching real product surfaces such as MFA, federated SSO, and delegated sharing. Work in this area tends to be tightly coupled to enterprise adoption patterns, standards, and audit expectations that shape how SaaS products are evaluated and purchased.
From a SaaS career perspective, the position builds durable expertise in operating security-critical services in production, especially within distributed systems. Experience designing authorization frameworks and integrating with identity providers translates across B2B SaaS categories, since protocols like SAML, SCIM, OAuth, and OIDC recur in platform and enterprise readiness work. The emphasis on fine-grained access control and global service design also develops judgment around performance, reliability, and security tradeoffs that senior SaaS engineers are expected to own.
This role is best suited to engineers who prefer foundational platform work over UI-heavy feature delivery, and who enjoy collaborating through well-defined standards and threat models. It will appeal to professionals who want to deepen systems skills while staying close to customer-facing security requirements and long-lived product infrastructure.
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.
There is only one Data Cloud. Snowflake’s founders started from scratch and designed a data platform built for the cloud that is effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. But it didn’t stop there. They engineered Snowflake to power the Data Cloud, where thousands of organizations unlock the value of their data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. This is our vision: a world with endless insights to tackle the challenges and opportunities of today and reveal the possibilities of tomorrow.
The database security identity & access management (IAM) team owns the services, systems, and product features that help our customers confidently bring their most sensitive data and workloads to Snowflake. We build solutions for secure authentication, simple yet granular access control, and safe, flexible data sharing and delegation. This includes features such as user management, multi-factor authentication, federated single sign-on, session and key pair authentication, and access control at all levels of the database (object, row, and column). Our systems are critical to customer trust and maintaining Snowflake’s performance, reliability, and security.
AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER - IDENTITY & ACCESS MANAGEMENT, YOU WILL:
Design and implement features to provide identity and access management including integration with the next generation identity providers and protocols.
Build authorization frameworks to provide fine grained access control, including data centric access control, beyond standard role-based access control which can scale to managing access over millions of objects and users.
Design and develop solutions for secure data sharing and access delegation in a globally distributed service.
AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER - IDENTITY & ACCESS MANAGEMENT, YOU HAVE:
2-6 years of industry experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale distributed systems in production, with recent experience in building large scale cloud services.
Deep knowledge and experience with one or more areas of identity and access management such as authentication, authorization, etc. Knowledge of industry standard security concepts and protocols like SAML, SCIM, OAuth, OIDC, and RBAC is a plus.
Experience with database systems and database internals, such as query engines and optimizers are a big plus.
Extremely strong fundamental computer science skills.
Strong development skills in Java or C++ preferred.
Advanced degree in Computer Science or related degree.
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
