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About Snap Inc.
Snap Inc. is a technology and camera company, best known for Snapchat, offering visual communication, augmented reality, and advertising products.
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The Staff Security Engineer, Identity Access Management serves as the technical lead for SnapIAM, the centralized platform managing identities and access policies across cloud environments and services. Joining the Security team, you will set the multi-year technical strategy and roadmap, translating company-wide needs into scalable platform capabilities. Day-to-day responsibilities include leading the design, implementation, and operation of services for workload identities, access governance, and permissions. You will drive secure, maintainable solutions, manage complex multi-team initiatives, and contribute production-quality code while mentoring engineers. Key requirements include deep knowledge of authentication, authorization, and least-privilege controls, alongside experience with distributed systems and cloud security. You will specifically address the technical problem of balancing robust security with developer productivity across GCP and AWS cloud platforms.
What does a Security Engineer earn in California?
Median $196750 from 39 postings across 15 companies.
Set the technical strategy and multi-year roadmap for the SnapIAM platform.
Lead the design, implementation, and operation of services for identities and access policies.
Drive secure and maintainable solutions for cloud access management and workload identities.
Lead multi-team initiatives from technical design through rollout, migration, and ongoing operations.
Define architecture, engineering standards, and operational practices to improve system reliability and observability.
Contribute production-quality code and lead design and code reviews for the engineering team.
Mentor engineers to strengthen technical execution and team ownership.
What we're looking for
Bachelor’s degree in a related technical field, or equivalent practical work experience.
9+ years of post-bachelor’s industry experience; or a Master’s degree with 8+ years of post-graduate security/software engineering experience; or a PhD with 5+ years of post-graduate experience.
1+ year of experience providing technical leadership or acting as a domain expert 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 (preferred).
Experience with workload or service identity, access governance, or identity lifecycle management (preferred).