Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Why this Role is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Identity and access management sits at the center of enterprise SaaS adoption, where customer trust depends on secure authentication, authorization, and administrative controls. This Senior Software Engineer role is notable because it operates inside a cloud data platform context, where IAM must support high concurrency, shared resources, and a wide surface area of integrations such as SSO, OAuth, and modern identity providers. The listing also signals a close connection between security and emerging AI workflows, an area many SaaS products are now formalising.
From a SaaS career perspective, the work maps to durable platform problems: building multi-tenant security primitives, designing scalable authorization models, and evolving protocols without disrupting production customers. Experience delivering large projects and setting quality bars translates across SaaS companies that run regulated workloads or sell to larger enterprises. The emphasis on audited, controlled agent workflows adds practical exposure to how SaaS vendors are adapting governance to new product capabilities.
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. Easily analyze your unstructured data, build data agents and create ML workflows using a comprehensive suite of AI services, all within the same secure and governed environment as your data. This is our vision: a world with endless insights to tackle the challenges and opportunities of today and reveal the possibilities of tomorrow.
The identity & access management (IAM) team’s charter is to enable our customers to confidently bring their most sensitive data and workloads to Snowflake. We provides the authentication and authorization capabilities for customers to secure their Snowflake accounts. We are heavily focused on critical AI adoption and security capabilities like Snowflake Intelligence access control, MCP server and clients, Agent identity, Admin guardrails for agents etc. Our feature set includes capabilities like user management, secret-less authentication for both human and service users, SSO integration with numerous IdPs, MFA, OAuth and OIDC support for 3P applications, and RBAC for granular access control. Our systems are critical to customer trust and maintaining Snowflake’s security, reliability and performance. The team culture is very collaborative with ample opportunities for growth and mentorship from Principal engineers.
AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - IDENTITY & ACCESS MANAGEMENT, YOU WILL:
Design and implement critical AI security capabilities for controlled, audited, restricted agent workflows, both inbound and outbound.
Design and implement features that provide critical identity and access management capabilities, including integration with the next generation identity providers and authentication protocols.
Build authorization frameworks to provide fine grained access control, which can scale to seamlessly managing millions of objects and users.
Design and develop solutions for seamless and secure data sharing, access to applications running in snowflake, and access via external applications
Lead and deliver large projects, including managing low-level project planning and execution
Showcase and hold a high bar for quality, speed, and sound technical decisions
Actively guide the team and partners via high-quality code and design reviews
AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - IDENTITY & ACCESS MANAGEMENT, YOU HAVE:
7+ 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, Federation 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, C# or C++ preferred.
Advanced degree in Computer Science or related field.
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?
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