Software Engineering Manager, Identity Access Management
Role Overview
This senior-level role involves leading the Identity & Access Management (IAM) team at Snowflake, responsible for building and managing secure authentication, access control, and data sharing features. The manager will drive projects from conception to implementation, set team strategy, and collaborate with product management and cross-functional teams to enhance database security and customer trust. They will grow and mentor a diverse engineering team while providing strong technical leadership in distributed systems and cloud environments.
Perks & Benefits
The job is fully remote, offering flexibility in location, though time zone expectations may align with team collaboration needs, likely in U.S. or global hours. Career growth is emphasized through mentorship, leadership opportunities, and innovation in a fast-growing company with a culture focused on impact and collaboration. Benefits include working with cutting-edge cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP) and a supportive environment that values diversity and professional development.
Full 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 database security identity & access management (IAM) team owns the services, systems, and product features that help our customers confidently bring their most sensitive data and workloads to Snowflake. We build solutions for secure authentication, simple yet granular access control, and safe, flexible data sharing and delegation. This includes features such as user management, multi-factor authentication, federated single sign-on, session and key pair authentication, and access control at all levels of the database (object, row, and column). Our systems are mission critical to customer trust and maintaining Snowflake’s performance, reliability, and security.
AS AN ENGINEERING MANAGER IN IAM, YOU WILL:
Lead and drive projects from idea formulation, to design, and to implementation.
Drive great partnership with the product management team.
Set team strategy and be accountable for team plans, execution and deliverables.
Grow and build a strong, healthy, and diverse team through hiring as well mentoring and coaching.
Collaborate with other engineering teams and cross functional teams.
Provide strong technical leadership to the team and partner teams.
Understand deeply the state of art and industry trends, and lead the team to build IAM features into Snowflake as an integrated service.
We expect our engineering managers to demonstrate a strong engineering background via their past experience both as engineers and as managers.
OUR IDEAL ENGINEERING MANAGER WILL HAVE:
10+ years of experience in building large scale distributed systems, some of which are in databases and/or security (in particular with IAM).
3+ years of experience in managing and leading engineering teams to build services and framework in the above domains.
Strong track record of delivering large scale and resilient distributed systems and services.
Extensive and strong development experience in cloud environments, such as AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Strong collaboration and communication skills.
Experience in different security areas like identity and access management, cryptography, secret management, network security, etc.
Knowledge of industry standard security concepts and protocols like SAML, SCIM, OAuth, RBAC, cryptography is a plus.
Strong hands-on skills. Can drill deep into the complex system design and implementation when needed.
Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.
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
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