Director of Engineering Identity Platform

GoDaddy

13h•$165,500 - $323,000•Remote

About The Position

GoDaddy's Identity Platform powers authentication, authorization, and core identity infrastructure, which sits at the heart of how millions of small businesses securely access, manage, and grow their online presence, across our products. We’re looking for a Director of Engineering to lead this critical platform into its next chapter — driving company-wide adoption of OAuth/OpenID Connect (OIDC) and OpenFGA, strengthening the reliability and security of core identity services, and crafting customer experiences that are flawless, scalable, and trusted. In this role, you’ll set the technical vision and the execution rhythm for a 50+ person engineering organization. This organization spans the US and India. You will lead through multiple Senior Managers while staying close to the technology. This is a hands-on leadership role — we expect you to code, prototype, run technical experiments, and to lead by example in using AI-assisted development tools.

Requirements

10+ years' demonstrated ability in software engineering, with 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, with a track record of leading and scaling engineering organizations of 20+ engineers through multiple layers of management across distributed teams and geographies.
An ownership mentality, strong customer advocacy in technical decision-making, and the ability to lead teams optimally through ambiguity
Strong hands-on technical depth across security, identity, access control, or adjacent platform systems, with the 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, with solid understanding of broader modern engineering stacks including React, GraphQL, and AWS; direct experience with OAuth, OIDC, or fine-grained authorization models such as OpenFGA is highly desirable
Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools, including a proven track record in driving adoption across engineering teams and apply good judgment around safe use in security-critical contexts

Nice To Haves

Prior ownership of an identity or profile/PII management platform at consumer or e-commerce scale
Experience leading US/India distributed teams
Contributions to open standards or open-source identity projects

Responsibilities

Own and set the engineering strategy and lead execution for the platforms that power 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
Stay close to the technology. You’ll contribute hands-on, from prototyping and code review to architecture and design discussions — using your technical depth to build credibility and make sharp technical calls
Champion the effective use of AI-assisted development tools such as Claude, Copilot, Cursor, in your own work and driving adoption across the organization, or similar, helping your teams increase efficiency while applying good judgment in security-critical environments
Drive company-wide adoption of modern identity and authorization standards, including OAuth, OpenID Connect and OpenFGA, partnering across teams to develop migration strategy and influence engineering standards beyond your own organization
Raise the operational bar for critical systems, improving incident response, on-call health, and monitoring for services used across every GoDaddy product
Champion identity experiences (password less, streamlined authorization) that protect customers; balancing strong security with ease of use