Software Engineer, Identity & Access Management

About the role

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 enables customers to confidently bring their most sensitive data and workloads to Snowflake. We build the authentication and authorization capabilities that help customers secure their Snowflake data and apps, including core AI security capabilities like MCP servers, agent identity and administrative guardrails for agentic workflows.
Our systems are foundational to customer trust, security, reliability, and performance. The team is highly collaborative, with opportunities to learn from and partner with experienced engineers across the organization.

AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER - IDENTITY & ACCESS MANAGEMENT, YOU WILL

• Design and implement secure identity and access management capabilities for Snowflake’s cloud services.

• Build features that support authentication and authorization for human users, service identities, agents, and external applications.

• Contribute to AI security capabilities that enable controlled, auditable, and appropriately restricted agent workflows.

• Develop authorization frameworks that provide fine-grained access control across large numbers of users, objects, and services.

• Design and implement integrations with identity providers and industry-standard authentication protocols.

• Build reliable solutions for secure data sharing, application access, and external service integrations.

• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, security partners, and other teams to deliver high-quality projects.

• Participate in design and code reviews, contribute to technical decisions, and help improve engineering practices.

OUR IDEAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE

• Experience designing, building, testing, and supporting distributed software systems in production.

• Strong programming skills in Java, C++, C#, or a comparable language.

• Understanding of core identity and access management concepts, including authentication, authorization, identity federation, or access control.

• Familiarity with one or more security protocols or standards, such as SAML, SCIM, OAuth, OIDC, or RBAC.

• Strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and software design.

• Experience working with databases, APIs, or cloud services.

• A track record of collaborating effectively across teams and communicating technical decisions clearly.

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

BONUS POINTS FOR THE FOLLOWING

• Experience building identity, security, authentication, or authorization services.

• Familiarity with IAM challenges for AI agents, MCP clients or servers, or service-to-service systems.

• Experience with database systems, query engines, or database internals.

• Experience operating highly available, scalable cloud services.

• Graduate-level study in Computer Science or a related technical field.

WHY JOIN THE IDENTITY & ACCESS MANAGEMENT TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE?

IAM is central to how customers protect their data and adopt new capabilities securely. You will work on systems that directly shape the security, reliability, and usability of Snowflake, while contributing to emerging areas such as agent identity and AI access controls.
The team values collaboration, mentorship, thoughtful technical decisions, and continuous growth. You will have opportunities to work alongside experienced engineers, take ownership of meaningful projects, and develop depth across distributed systems, cloud security, and identity management.

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