Senior Staff Software Engineer (Identity & Access Management)

Go Fund Me
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["OAuth 2.x","OpenID Connect","SAML 2.0","SCIM","SSO","Federation","Token management","Security","Threat modelling"]

Lead the architecture, scalability, and reliability of the identity platform, shaping how millions trust and interact with GoFundMe. Own end-to-end identity strategy across consumer and enterprise contexts, mentor engineers, and drive secure, compliant, high-availability identity services across partnerships and products in a hybrid San Francisco, CA environment.

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Senior Staff Software Engineer (Identity & Access Management)

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Job Summary

Lead the architecture, scalability, and reliability of the identity platform, shaping how millions trust and interact with GoFundMe. Own end-to-end identity strategy across consumer and enterprise contexts, mentor engineers, and drive secure, compliant, high-availability identity services across partnerships and products in a hybrid San Francisco, CA environment.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define and evolve the end-to-end identity architecture spanning authentication, authorization, session management, and token lifecycle across consumer and enterprise contexts.
  • •Establish trust boundaries, integration contracts, and platform primitives that make the secure path the default path for every team consuming identity services.
  • •Make principled build-vs-integrate decisions across vendor (e.g., Descope, Auth0, Okta) and in-house systems, owning the tradeoffs and migration paths.
  • •Design repeatable, self-service enterprise identity onboarding (SSO, SCIM provisioning, multi-tenant trust) so that each new partnership does not require bespoke integration.
  • •Architect federation and provisioning patterns that support GoFundMe’s growing enterprise and nonprofit partnerships.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionLife Insurance401kEquity

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time at senior, staff, or principal levels working on platform or infrastructure systems.
  • •Deep, hands-on expertise with identity protocols and standards: OAuth 2.x, OpenID Connect, SAML 2.0, and SCIM.
  • •Track record of designing and shipping identity or auth platforms that other engineering teams depend on in production.
  • •Experience architecting systems using federation standards, session/token management patterns, and well-defined trust boundaries, with an eye toward minimizing the cost of future change.
  • •Strong security instincts: you threat-model as you design, understand credential risk and account takeover patterns, and build systems where the secure path is the easy path.
Experience:8+ yearsIdentity platformEnterprise identityPlatformInfrastructure
Skills:OAuth 2.xOpenID ConnectSAML 2.0SCIMSSOFederationToken managementSecurityThreat modelling
Languages:English
Tech Stack:AWSGCPAzureRelational databasesSQLIdentity platformsPlatform reliability

Company Brief

Go Fund Me
Operates an online crowdfunding platform that enables individuals and organizations to raise money for personal causes, medical expenses, charities, and community projects through donations from the public.
Industry: Online Marketplaces
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: San Diego, United States
Founded: 2010
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