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Snowflake

Senior Software Engineer - Identity & Access Management

Snowflake is hiring a Senior Software Engineer - Identity & Access Management in Bellevue, United States. It pays $200k-$288k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Snowflake.

Level's read on this job

  • Works on AI ●●●○ is how Level rates this software engineer role: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
  • The listed pay starts 19% above the typical software engineer posting on Level.
  • Tools and skills the posting cites include MCP, Oauth and Oidc.
  • Level classifies it as a senior role.
  • Level lists 353 other open roles at Snowflake.

AI in this role

Design and implement AI security capabilities, agent workflows, and IAM solutions for Snowflake's platform.

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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?

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

How we rate this

Senior Software Engineer - Identity & Access Management at Snowflake rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

Identity And Access ManagementSecurityAuthenticationAuthorizationMCPOauthOidc

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Pay

This job starts at
$200k
Typical software engineer job
$168k

This posting starts 19% above the typical software engineer job. See software engineer jobs

Questions you could be asked

  1. Tell me about a project where identity and access management was part of your work. What did you do?
  2. Tell me about a project where security was part of your work. What did you do?
  3. Tell me about a project where authentication was part of your work. What did you do?
  4. Tell me about a project where authorization was part of your work. What did you do?
  5. Walk me through how you've used MCP in your day-to-day work.

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  • List these exact terms on your resume: Identity And Access Management, Security, Authentication, Authorization, and MCP. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
  • Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
  • Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.

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