Senior Staff Software Engineer (Identity & Access Management)

Want to help us help others? We’re hiring! GoFundMe is the world's most powerful community for good. Our community has raised more than $40 billion since 2010, connecting millions of donors, beneficiaries, and nonprofit partners on a single platform built for trust. GoFundMe is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Identity & Access Management to lead the architecture, evolution, and reliability of our IAM platform: the foundational layer that every product team, enterprise partner, and internal service builds on. You will set the technical direction for how millions of people authenticate, how nonprofit partners federate into GoFundMe, and how engineering teams consume identity with confidence. GoFundMe has more than one front door. Donors, organizers, and beneficiaries arrive through our consumer platform; nonprofits and their supporters, from grassroots organizations to some of the largest charitable institutions in the world, arrive through Pro. Keeping every front door open to the right people is an access problem, and this role owns the platform behind all of them, spanning consumer IAM and enterprise IAM: federation and provisioning, MFA orchestration and step-up, session and token lifecycle, and policy enforcement as a platform. You will be one of three horizontal Identity Platform Engineers reporting to the Sr. Manager of Identity and Integrity Engineering, alon [... source excerpt omitted ...] cts, and platform primitives that make the secure path the default for every team consuming identity services. Own the enterprise identity onboarding experience for our nonprofit customers: repeatable, self-service SSO, SCIM provisioning, and multi-tenant trust patterns that scale without bespoke integration per partner. Architect federation and provisioning patterns (OIDC, SAML 2.0, SCIM) that hold up across a wide range of enterprise IdP configurations, from large institutions to small grassroots organizations. Make principled build vs. integrate decisions across vendor platforms (Descope, Auth0, Okta) and in-house systems, owning the tradeoffs, migration paths, and long-ter [... source excerpt omitted ...] ation decisions are reliably enforced at runtime across consumer and enterprise surfaces. 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 8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time at senior, staff, or principal levels working on platform or infrastructure syst