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Manager, Security Engineering, Identity Access Management

Snap Inc.· Engineering
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Hybrid (Los Angeles, CA)$251k - $377kFull timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Security Engineering Manager to lead and grow the Identity & Access Management (IAM) organization at Snap, balancing people leadership with technical guidance to deliver secure, reliable IAM capabilities across the company.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, coach, and grow a team of security engineers; set expectations, provide feedback, manage performance, hire thoughtfully, and develop future technical leaders.
  • Build a healthy, accountable, and increasingly independent team that delivers reliably without depending on individual heroes.
  • Establish priorities, staffing plans, capacity tradeoffs, operating cadence, and measurable commitments for IAM.
  • Partner with IAM strategy and technical leaders to translate technical direction into executable plans, clear ownership, safe rollouts, and durable operational mechanisms.
  • Improve execution across IAM migration, reliability, authorization adoption, workload and machine identity, and internal-customer experience.
  • Set a high bar for engineering quality, security, reliability, observability, incident response, and operational readiness.
  • Build alignment with engineering and infrastructure teams, balancing least-privilege security with developer productivity and usability.
  • Identify organizational, technical, staffing, and dependency risks early; drive resolution or escalate with clear tradeoffs.
  • Maintain working fluency in authentication, authorization, cloud access, workload identity, privileged access, and access governance to make sound decisions and challenge risk.
  • Help the team use AI tools responsibly while maintaining strong standards for correctness, security, and production quality.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent years of experience in a related technical field
  • 8+ years of post- bachelor’s security experience; or a Master’s degree in a technical field + 7+ years of post-grad security experience; or a PhD in a related technical field + 4 years of post-grad security experience
  • 1+ year(s) of experience as an Engineering Manager
  • Experience leading security initiatives related to identity, access management, or cloud security.

Skills

Required:Leadership and people managementIAM strategy and executionSecurity engineeringSecurity quality and reliabilityAuthentication & authorization

Benefits

  • paid parental leave
  • comprehensive medical coverage
  • emotional and mental health support programs
  • compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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We contribute to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.

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