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GoFundMe

Senior Staff Software Engineer (Identity & Access Management)

San Francisco, CA · Staff+ · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$234k-$321kDetected 16 hours ago
AWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsOAuthIncident ResponseComplianceLeadership

About the role

  • If you think in trust boundaries, federation patterns, and policy enforcement more than signals and scoring, this is your seat.
  • The job - Define and evolve the end-to-end IAM architecture spanning authentication, authorization, session management, and token lifecycle across consumer and enterprise contexts.
  • We live by our core values: impatient to be great, find a way, earn trust every day, fueled by purpose.

Responsibilities

  • Make principled build vs. integrate decisions across vendor platforms (Descope, Auth0, Okta) and in-house systems, owning the tradeoffs, migration paths, and long-term cost of change.
  • Design and operate MFA orchestration and step-up authentication flows, integrating risk signals from the Identity & Risk Intelligence engineer to make adaptive, confident auth decisions without adding unnecessary friction for the legitimate majority.
  • Own the consumer identity platform, including Descope CIAM, session management, passwordless authentication, and social login, balancing security against funnel conversion with a lean toward the enterprise and Pro surfaces where IAM complexity is highest.
  • Own the IAM technical roadmap, prioritizing initiatives based on user impact, enterprise requirements, compliance obligations, and technical feasibility.
  • Partner with Identity & Risk Intelligence, Payments, Security, and Integrity as the IAM platform interface for the systems that depend on it.
  • Mentor engineers across the Identity team and the broader Platform Tribe, raising the bar on system design, security thinking, and operational rigor.
  • you threat-model as you design, understand credential risk and account takeover patterns, and build systems where the secure path is the easy path.
  • We're proud to partner with GoFundMe.org, an independent public charity, to extend the reach and impact of our generous community, while helping drive critical social change.
  • While this tool is used to improve efficiency and support our recruiting personnel, all final hiring decisions are made by GoFundMe employees.

Requirements

  • Experience architecting systems using federation standards, session and token management patterns, and well-defined trust boundaries, with an eye toward minimizing the cost of future change.
  • By submitting your application, you are agreeing to our use and processing of your data as required.

Skills

  • Experience spanning both enterprise and consumer identity contexts, such as at fintech, SaaS, payments, or identity-forward companies.
  • Familiarity with advanced authorization models ( RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC ) and policy engines (OPA, Cedar), particularly the enforcement side.
  • Practical experience deploying and operating identity services on cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) at scale.
  • Contributions to identity standards bodies, open-source identity projects, or published thought leadership in the IAM space.
  • experience with monitoring, alerting, and incident response for mission-critical identity infrastructure.
  • Why you'll love it here
  • Competitive
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Compensation

  • The annual U.S. salary range for this full-time position is $233,500 - $321,200.
  • You can learn more about GoFundMe.org's activities and impact in their FY '25 annual report.
  • Our annual "Year in Help" report reflects our community's impact in advancing our mission of helping people help each other.

Benefits

  • Enjoy competitive pay and comprehensive healthcare benefits.
  • Growth Opportunities: Participate in learning, development, and recognition programs to help you thrive and grow.
  • Commitment to DEI: Contribute to diversity, equity, and inclusion through ongoing initiatives and employee resource groups.
  • The company also offers equity and other benefits to employees, including healthcare, dental, vision, life insurance and 401(k) saving program.
  • Additionally pay may vary depending on other factors including skills, experience, education, or training.

Company info

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Equal opportunity

  • equal opportunity employer that actively pursues candidates of diverse backgrounds and experiences.
  • If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete a job application or a job interview or to otherwise participate in the hiring process, please contact us at accommodationrequests@gofundme.com.
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