Director of Engineering Identity Platform

Location Details: USA Remote At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time, others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely. This position may be a hybrid or fully remote position, as decided by your manager. If designated as hybrid, you’ll divide your time between working remotely from your home and an office location, so you should live within commuting distance. If designated as remote, you’ll be working remotely from your home and may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings. Your hiring manager can share more about this role’s hybrid or remote designation. This position is not eligible to be performed in Alaska, Mississippi, North Dakota, or the Virgin Islands. GoDaddy is not currently considering candidates for this role in California, Seattle, or NYC. Join our Team GoDaddy's Identity Platform powers authentication, authorization, and core identity infrastructure, which sits at the heart of how millions of small businesses securely access, manage, and grow their online presence, across our products. We’re looking for a Director of Engineering to lead this critical platform into its next chapter — driving company-wide adoption of OAuth/OpenID Connect (OIDC) and OpenFGA, strengthening the reliability and security of core identity services, and crafting customer experiences that are flawless, scalable, and trusted. In this role, you’ll set the technical vision and the execution rhythm for a 50+ person engineering organization. This organization spans the US and India. You will lead through multiple Senior Managers while staying close to the technology. This is a hands-on leadership role — we expect you to code, prototype, run technical experiments, and to lead by example in using AI-assisted development tools. What you’ll get to do 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…