Senior Software Engineer, Identity & Access Management

Snowflake Inc.

Clyde Hill, WA

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JOB DETAILS

SALARY

$200,000–$287,500 Per Year

JOB TYPE

Full-time, Employee

SKILLS

Access Control, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agents, Auditing, Authentication, C++ Programming Language, Cloud Computing, Code Reviews, Computer Science, Concurrency, Data Analysis, Database Technology, Distributed Computing, Identity Data Management, Identity Federation, Industry Standards, Information/Data Security (InfoSec), Java, Large-Scale Systems, MCP - Microsoft Certified Professional, Microsoft C# (C Sharp), OAuth, Performance Analysis, Power Engineering, Production Systems, Project Execution, Project Planning, Query Optimization, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Security Protocols, Single Sign-On (SSO), Snowflake Schema, Software Engineering, Strategic Planning, Systems/Internals Programming, Unstructured Data

LOCATION

Clyde Hill, WA

POSTED

30+ days ago

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 provide solutions for secure authentication, simple and granular access control, data sharing, and secure access via external applications. We own critical AI adoption and security capabilities via MCP servers and clients, admin controls and guardrails, agent identity etc. Our feature set includes user management, multi-factor authentication and federated single sign-on, passwordless and secretless authentication options like Workload Identity Federation and key pair, access control for all Snowflake entities like database objects, applications and AI agents. Our systems are critical to customer trust and maintaining Snowflake's security, reliability and performance.

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

Additionally Proposed

Lead and deliver multi-engineer x-team projects , including managing low-level project planning and execution

Actively guide the team and partners via high-quality code and design reviews

Collaborate, influence and guide partner team on IAM-related features and architecture

Play a critical role in shaping the strategic direction for your product focus area

Showcase and hold a high bar for quality, speed, and sound technical decisions

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?

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

The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:
The estimated base salary range for this role is $200,000 - $287,500.
Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake's bonus and equity plan.

The successful candidate's starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location. This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending & health savings account; at least 12 paid holidays; paid time off; parental leave; employee assistance program; and other company benefits.

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Snowflake is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, race, religion, pregnancy, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

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