# Senior Software Engineer

**Company:** [Snowflake](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/snowflake)
**Location:** Bellevue, WA
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $200k – $288k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Identity And Access Management, Authentication, Authorization, SAML, SCIM, OAuth, OIDC, Federation, RBAC, Java, C#, C++, Database Internals, Query Engines
**Posted:** 2026-07-01

> Senior Software Engineer building critical Identity & Access Management features and AI security capabilities (agent workflows, authentication, authorization, RBAC) for Snowflake's cloud data platform. Requires 7+ years building large-scale distributed systems, IAM expertise, and strong CS fundamentals.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- 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.

## Requirements
- 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.
- Experience with database systems and database internals, such as query engines and optimizers.
- Extremely strong fundamental computer science skills.
- Strong development skills in Java, C# or C++.
- Advanced degree in Computer Science or related field.

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