Principal Engineer, Digital Identity

The Role

You will be the technical leader for Digital Identity at SoFi: the platform group that powers identity, authorization, and entitlements for every product and every member across the company. Digital Identity runs Tier-0 infrastructure: the highest criticality rating at SoFi. Every product line, banking, lending, investing, credit cards, crypto depends on these platforms to know who a member is, what they're entitled to, and what they're authorized to do. When these platforms are down, SoFi is down.You'll define the technical strategy for this group. You'll architect solutions for complex, ambiguous problems: multi-person access patterns, cross-organizational platform convergence, and data integrity at financial-services scale.

You'll build the engineering processes and culture that let a lean team operate Tier-0 infrastructure with confidence. And you'll push the boundaries of how we build, leveraging AI to accelerate development, prototype faster, and experiment with approaches that would have been impractical two years ago.

What You'll Own

Platform Technical Strategy: Digital Identity operates multiple Tier-0 platforms spanning identity resolution, entitlement management, and fine-grained authorization. You own the technical strategy across all of them: setting the architectural direction, executing and leading designs, and ensuring the platforms evolve as a coherent system rather than independent services.

Complex Authorization Architecture: SoFi is expanding into scenarios where multiple people interact with shared financial resources: across business, family, and custodial contexts. You'll design the unified platform architecture that handles these patterns at scale: consistent access models, compliance-grade audit trails, and enforcement of regulatory requirements. This is one platform problem with many product surfaces.

Cross-Organization Platform Convergence: SoFi operates and integrates with multiple technology organizations with overlapping identity and authorization infrastructure. You'll lead the architectural vision for convergence: a shared platform primitives that multiple organizations consume while preserving the flexibility each product line needs. This requires navigating competing priorities, different technical stacks, and organizational boundaries.

Operational Excellence & Data Integrity: Tier-0 financial platforms demand more than uptime. You'll architect the verification and reconciliation systems that prove these platforms are correct: automated integrity checks, drift detection, and self-healing mechanisms. You'll establish the operational processes, incident response standards, and reliability practices that let the team ship with confidence and sleep at night.

Engineering Culture & Team Uplift: You'll raise the bar for how this team builds software. That means establishing rigorous design review processes, defining engineering standards that compound over time, mentoring senior ICs into technical leaders, and creating the feedback loops that turn incidents into prevention. You're not just the best engineer on the team: you're the reason the whole team gets better.

Strategic Investment Identification: You won't just execute on the roadmap handed to you. You'll identify the next set of high-leverage technical investments: where the platforms should go, what capabilities are missing, which emerging patterns (in authorization, in AI, in infrastructure) should be adopted before the business asks for them.

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

What This Isn't

This is not a role for someone who wants to write code in a corner. You'll spend significant time on architecture, cross-team alignment, design reviews, and mentorship. You will write code and drive credibility with your depth but the highest-leverage output is the technical direction you set, the engineering culture you build, and the engineers you develop.

Why This Role?

About SoFi

SoFi is a member-first personal finance platform serving millions of members. We offer banking, lending, investing, insurance, and more – all in one app. Our engineering culture values ownership, accountability, and building platforms that scale across product lines rather than bespoke solutions per vertical.

Digital Identity is one of the most critical engineering groups at SoFi. We're a lean, senior team solving company-wide problems at the intersection of security, scale, and member experience.