Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Identity and access management sits at the center of modern SaaS, where multi-tenant platforms must prove that authentication, authorization, and auditability can scale without weakening customer trust. This Senior Software Engineer role is featured because it focuses on IAM as a product surface, spanning SSO, MFA, OAuth and OIDC, and fine-grained RBAC, with explicit attention to how AI agents and new access patterns change security expectations in cloud services.
For a long-term SaaS engineering path, the work signals exposure to the kinds of foundational systems that persist across companies and categories. Building authorization frameworks that operate at very large scale, integrating with evolving identity providers and protocols, and delivering secure data sharing patterns are experiences that translate to enterprise SaaS, developer platforms, and data infrastructure. The emphasis on design, quality, and leading sizeable projects also aligns with the senior-level progression typical in platform teams.
This role tends to suit engineers who prefer deep, systems-oriented problem solving over feature-only delivery, and who enjoy working at the boundary between security, product requirements, and distributed systems constraints. It also fits professionals who are comfortable owning end-to-end outcomes, from protocol-level decisions through production reliability, in an on-site environment.
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
At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.
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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