Senior Staff Software Engineer (Identity & Access Management)
GofundmeSan Francisco, CA · full time · Senior
$233,500 – $321,200
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What this role is
This role leads the design and operation of GoFundMe's identity and access management platform, which handles authentication and authorization for millions of donors, organizers, and nonprofit partners across consumer and enterprise surfaces. It suits a senior engineer with deep expertise in identity protocols and federation patterns who has shipped IAM systems at scale and enjoys solving the architectural problems that arise when serving both grassroots organizations and large institutions.
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What they ask for
Required
- 8+ years of software engineering experience at senior, staff, or principal levels on platform or infrastructure systems
- Deep hands-on expertise with OAuth 2.x, OpenID Connect, SAML 2.0, and SCIM protocols
- Track record of designing and shipping IAM or auth platforms used in production at meaningful scale
- Demonstrated experience with enterprise identity at scale including SSO, SCIM provisioning, and multi-tenant trust patterns
- Experience architecting systems with federation standards, session and token management, and well-defined trust boundaries
- Strong security instincts including threat modeling, understanding credential and account takeover risks
- Strong observability and reliability skills for mission-critical identity infrastructure
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with commercial identity platforms in production including provider migrations
- Experience spanning both enterprise and consumer identity contexts such as at fintech, SaaS, or payments companies
- Familiarity with advanced authorization models and policy engines, particularly enforcement
- Experience with compliance requirements relevant to identity systems (SOC 2, PCI DSS, GDPR, CCPA) and data residency
- Practical experience deploying identity services on cloud infrastructure at scale
- Contributions to identity standards bodies, open-source identity projects, or published IAM thought leadership