Identity & Risk Platform Lead — Senior Software Engineer

GoFundMe; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 233,500 - 321,200; Full time

Job summary

GoFundMe is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for Identity & Risk Intelligence in the San Francisco Bay Area. You will anchor the intelligence side of the Identity Platform and set the technical direction for recognizing and trusting people on the platform, across consumer and enterprise surfaces.

Responsibilities include building a progressive identity layer, architecting the identity graph and risk signals, and shaping adaptive authentication with cross-functional partners like

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time at senior, staff, or principal levels working on identity, risk, fraud, or trust and safety platforms.
• Track record of designing and shipping identity resolution, identity graph, behavioral signal, or risk scoring systems that other teams depend on in production.
• Deep experience with device fingerprinting, visitor stitching, account linking, behavioral feature engineering, confidence calibration, and risk model integration.
• Deep identity and CIAM platform experience at scale: auth, sessions, passwordless authentication, social login, and the engineering decisions that balance security against conversion.
• Fluency with login risk and adaptive authentication, including risk scoring, step-up flows, and device signals, applied to user experience rather than detection alone.
• Strong systems thinking about identity as a risk problem: you understand friction-vs-security tradeoffs at scale.

Responsibilities

• Build progressive identity layer to recognize returning visitors, stitch anonymous device history to a person at signup or login, and raise identity confidence over time.
• Architect identity resolution and the identity graph: visitor stitching, account linking, and confidence-weighted models powering personalization, guest donor checkout, and fraud prevention across consumer and enterprise surfaces.
• Build behavioral signals and identity confidence scoring platform: data products and APIs for real-time trust and authorization decisions for IAM, Integrity, and Payments.
• Shape login risk into adaptive experiences: convert risk signals into adaptive MFA and step-up authentication that protects against account takeover without adding friction for legitimate users.
• Shape the login and recognition experience on CIAM platforms: passwordless authentication, social login, and session decisions informed by recognition and risk.
• Design policy decision and information layer (PDP and PIP) that informs IAM's step-up and session enforcement decisions and Integrity's abuse actions.
• Own platform approach to large-scale identity-based threats: bot activity, SMS fraud, credential stuffing, and account manipulation at scale.
• Partner with Integrity, Payments, and Decision Science on identity signal use cases across their needs.

Skills

Identity platform

Risk & trust systems

Device fingerprinting

Visitor stitching

CIAM authentication

Adaptive authentication

Fraud prevention

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Job description

GoFundMe is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for Identity & Risk Intelligence in the San Francisco Bay Area. You will anchor the intelligence side of the Identity Platform and set the technical direction for recognizing and trusting people on the platform, across consumer and enterprise surfaces.

Responsibilities include building a progressive identity layer, architecting the identity graph and risk signals, and shaping adaptive authentication with cross-functional partners like