Snowflake
Senior Software Engineer - Identity & Access Management
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Location
- US-WA-Bellevue
- Published
- Jul 2, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 26, 2026
About this 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’s charter is to enable our customers to confidently bring their most sensitive data and workloads to Snowflake. We provides the authentication https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/authentication-policies and authorization https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/security-access-control-overview 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.