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 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
