Director of Engineering Identity Platform
About the role
Location Details
USA Remote
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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.
What you’ll get to do
- 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
Your experience should include…
- 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 e