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GoDaddy

Director of Engineering Identity Platform

RemoteUnited States only· except U.S. Virgin Islands
Published
Role
Engineering Management
Experience
Lead
Company size
Enterprise
$215k–$323k/yr
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No BS summary

Engineering director for GoDaddy's Identity Platform, leading a 50+ person US/India organization through multiple managers. Needs 10+ years in software engineering, 8+ years people leadership, and hands-on depth in identity/security/platform engineering. Must be US-based, not in Alaska, Mississippi, North Dakota, Virgin Islands, California, Seattle, or NYC.

Core skills

OAuthOpenID ConnectOpenFGA

Required skills

Java/PythonReactGraphQLAWS

Optional skills

OIDC

What you'll do

  • Own and set the engineering strategy and lead execution for platforms powering authentication, authorization, and customer profile management across GoDaddy
  • Lead, mentor, and scale a distributed engineering organization of 50+ engineers across the US and India, including multiple Senior Managers
  • Contribute hands-on through prototyping, code review, architecture, and design discussions
  • Use technical depth to build credibility and make technical calls
  • Champion effective use of AI-assisted development tools such as Claude, Copilot, and Cursor in your own work and across the organization
  • Help teams increase efficiency with AI-assisted development tools while applying good judgment in security-critical environments
  • Drive company-wide adoption of modern identity and authorization standards, including OAuth, OpenID Connect, and OpenFGA
  • Partner across teams to develop migration strategy and influence engineering standards beyond your own organization
  • Raise the operational bar for critical systems
  • Improve incident response, on-call health, and monitoring for services used across every GoDaddy product
  • Champion identity experiences such as passwordless and streamlined authorization that protect customers
  • Balance strong security with ease of use

What they require

  • 10+ years' demonstrated ability in software engineering
  • Recent experience in identity, security, or platform engineering within a global technology environment
  • Hands-on experience driving large-scale technical migrations, platform modernization, or engineering standards adoption across a sophisticated engineering organization
  • 8+ years' proven experience as a people leader
  • Track record of leading and scaling engineering organizations of 20+ engineers through multiple layers of management across distributed teams and geographies
  • Ownership mentality
  • Strong customer advocacy in technical decision-making
  • Ability to lead teams optimally through ambiguity
  • Strong hands-on technical depth across security, identity, access control, or adjacent platform systems
  • Ability to deep dive into identity and authorization concepts, write code, prototype, and lead architecture and design reviews
  • Proficiency in a modern backend language such as Java or Python
  • Solid understanding of broader modern engineering stacks including React, GraphQL, and AWS
  • Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools
  • Proven track record in driving AI-assisted development tool adoption across engineering teams
  • Good judgment around safe use of AI-assisted development tools in security-critical contexts
  • Preferred: Prior ownership of an identity or profile/PII management platform at consumer or e-commerce scale
  • Preferred: Experience leading US/India distributed teams
  • Preferred: Contributions to open standards or open-source identity projects

Benefits

  • Competitive pay
  • Generous time off
  • Parental leave
  • Wellness leave
  • Healthcare
  • Retirement savings program
  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401(k)-retirement plan
  • Paid sick time
  • Paid flexible time off
  • Paid parental leave
  • Life insurance
  • Short- and long-term disability
  • AD&D insurance
  • Mental health or EAP programs
  • Remote or hybrid work options
  • Paid holidays
  • Paid Wellness days
  • Tuition assistance
  • Adoption benefits
  • Surrogacy benefits
  • Fertility benefits
  • Dependent daycare benefits
  • Backup care benefits
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • Financial education and advice
  • Corporate bonus eligibility
  • Equity awards eligibility
  • Employee Resource Groups
  • Side hustles are accepted

GoDaddy

GoDaddy provides end-to-end solutions for online growth, including domain registration, web hosting and security, online marketing tools, payment processing and POS solutions, financial services and Airo AI Builder, an AI-powered creation platform.

🇺🇸 United StatesInternetEnterprisegodaddy.com/

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$215k–$323k/yr