• Significant experience leading engineering teams responsible for identity, authentication, authorization, account management, or other foundational platform capabilities.
• Strong technical depth in designing and operating highly available, scalable, and secure distributed systems.
• Experience setting technical strategy and translating ambiguous business, product, and security needs into clear engineering priorities.
• A track record of building and developing high-performing engineering teams, including through hiring, coaching, performance management, and organizational design.
• Experience partnering effectively with product, design, risk, compliance, and other cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong judgment in balancing delivery speed, system reliability, security, operational complexity, and long-term maintainability.
• Clear, direct communication and the ability to influence at both technical and executive levels.
• YOU'LL THRIVE HERE IF
• You're comfortable owning the roadmap yourself.
• You own the outcome and you don't wait for permission to fix what's broken.
• You're comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and moving quickly anyway.
• You communicate clearly and directly across cultures, and you're thoughtful about how context shifts meaning across borders.
• You know when to align and when to just decide. Collaboration isn't a way to avoid accountability.
• You connect dots across functions and hold the big picture without losing grip on the details.