Snap

Staff Security Engineer, Identity Access Management

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2 days ago
Bellevue, WA, USA +4 moreStaff+
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Base Salary

$213k - $377k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Set the technical strategy and multi-year roadmap for SnapIAM.
  • Design, implement, and operate services managing identities, access policies, and permissions across cloud platforms and services.
  • Drive secure, reliable, maintainable solutions for cloud access management, workload and service identities, and access governance.
  • Lead multi-team initiatives through technical design, rollout, migration, and ongoing operations.
  • Partner with Infrastructure, Engineering, and Security teams to integrate SnapIAM and improve adoption.
  • Define architecture, engineering standards, reliability practices, observability, and safe change-management processes.
  • Contribute production-quality code, lead design and code reviews, and mentor engineers.
  • Use AI-enabled engineering tools appropriately with human review.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related technical field or equivalent practical work experience; alternatively, a relevant master’s degree or PhD may qualify with the corresponding experience.
  • At least 9 years of post-bachelor’s industry experience, 8 years of post-graduate experience with a master’s degree, or 5 years of post-graduate experience with a PhD.
  • At least 1 year of technical leadership or domain-expert experience for an engineering organization.
  • Experience designing and implementing identity and access management systems, cloud access controls, or security platforms.
  • Experience architecting, designing, and developing distributed systems.
  • Deep knowledge of authentication, authorization, access policy design, and least-privilege controls.
  • Experience with cloud identity and access management across GCP and AWS is preferred.
  • Preferred experience includes workload or service identity, access governance, identity lifecycle management, legacy-system migrations, automation, self-service workflows, and multi-team platform roadmaps.

Benefits

  • Paid parental leave.
  • Comprehensive medical coverage.
  • Emotional and mental health support programs.
  • Compensation packages with long-term equity participation through RSUs.
  • Employees are expected to work in an office four or more days per week under Snap’s “default together” policy.
Snap

About Snap

5,001-10,000 employees

Snap Inc. builds Snapchat, a visual messaging app, and supports augmented reality through Lens Studio and Spectacles, plus related services like Bitmoji. The company monetizes primarily via advertising and sponsored AR experiences for consumers, creators, and brands. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Santa Monica, it is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker SNAP.

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