Grammarly
Engineering Manager, Identity
🇺🇸 Hybrid - San Francisco, CA
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $260K - $340K
💻 Software Engineering
🗓️ June 18th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
Grammarly is hiring an Engineering Manager, Identity to lead the Identity Platform engineering team. This role involves setting the technical vision and strategy, managing the design and development of the company's identity technology stack, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure security, scalability, and compliance of identity services.
Highlights
- Lead the design, development, and maintenance of the Identity Platform technology stack.
- Define vision, strategy, and roadmap for identity services, and stay updated on IAM technologies.
- Manage and mentor a team of software engineers to enable efficient execution.
- Collaborate with product, design, and other teams to deliver excellent user and admin experiences.
- Ensure compliance with data privacy, security standards, and governance for identity systems.
- Assist in hiring top engineering talent and contribute to company-level OKRs.
- Strong software engineering background with 8+ years experience, including 3+ years in leadership roles.
- Deep expertise in backend development, system architecture, and preferably IAM concepts.
- Emphasis on a data-driven approach, ownership, and ability to manage multiple initiatives.
- Competitive compensation up to $340,000/year (USD Zone 1), plus comprehensive benefits including healthcare, 401(k) matching, paid leave, and professional development.
Engineering Manager, Identity Full Description
Grammarly offers a dynamic hybrid working model for this role. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that helps foster trust, innovation, and a strong team culture.
About Grammarly
Grammarly is the world’s leading AI writing assistance company trusted by over 40 million people and 50,000 organizations. From instantly creating a first draft to perfecting every message, Grammarly helps people at 96% of the Fortune 500 and teams at companies like Atlassian, Databricks, and Zoom get their point across—and get results—with best-in-class security practices that keep data private and protected. Founded in 2009, Grammarly is No. 14 on the Forbes Cloud 100, one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies, one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in AI, and one of Inc.’s Best Workplaces.
The Opportunity
To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Identity Platform team. In this role, you will lead the engineering team responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the company's identity technology stack, which spans a wide breadth and is the core platform on top of which all other features are built. The candidate will drive strategy, vision, and execution for this team to enable building scalable, reliable, secure, efficient, and ubiquitous abstraction layers for identity capabilities.
The ideal candidate is a technical leader with a strong software development background and considerable experience in IAM concepts. They should also showcase the ability to lead teams effectively in a fast-paced environment, following our EAGER values and MOVE principles.
Grammarly’s engineers and researchers have the freedom to innovate and uncover breakthroughs—and, in turn, influence our product roadmap. The complexity of our technical challenges is growing rapidly as we scale our interfaces, algorithms, and infrastructure. You can hear more from our team on our technical blog.
As Identity Platform Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for
- Defining the vision, technical strategy, and roadmap for Identity Platform, collaborating with relevant stakeholders, leading and mentoring a team of software engineers, and staying informed on emerging technologies in IAM (Identity & Access Management) areas.
- Enabling the Identity Platform team to be efficient via streamlined execution and technical mentoring.
- Stakeholder management, by partnering with product, design, and team members, acts as a bridge between engineering and other cross-functional teams to provide a best-in-class user and admin experience.
- Security, governance, and compliance by ensuring the Identity stack complies with data privacy and security standards and establishing best practices for tracking, reporting, and data management overall.
- Scale the team and organization by helping with hiring the brightest talent to Grammarly.
- Be involved in driving org and company-level OKRs outside of the team's deliverables.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3 years in a leadership role focused on back-end product engineering, team building, and reliable and scalable distributed systems.
- Strong experience in software development and system architecture, focusing on back-end technologies.
- Subject matter expertise in IAM or leading IAM or similar teams would be a plus!
- Ability to be data-driven, leveraging modern technologies.
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple initiatives in a fast-paced environment.
- High ownership mindset to drive impactful OKRs across multiple teams.
- Ability to work with ambiguous requirements and still have a bias for action.
- Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
- Is inspired by our MOVE principles: move fast and learn faster; obsess about creating customer value; value impact over activity; and embrace healthy disagreement rooted in trust.
Compensation and Benefits
Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing the following and more:
- Excellent health care (including a wide range of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and fertility benefits)
- Disability and life insurance options
- 401(k) and RRSP matching
- Paid parental leave
- 20 days of paid time off per year, 12 days of paid holidays per year, two floating holidays per year, and flexible sick time
- Generous stipends (including those for caregiving, pet care, wellness, your home office, and more)
- Annual professional development budget and opportunities
Grammarly takes a market-based approach to compensation, which means base pay may vary depending on your location. Our US locations are categorized into two compensation zones based on proximity to our hub locations.
Base pay may vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The expected salary ranges for this position are outlined below by compensation zone and may be modified in the future.
United States:
Zone 1: $260,000 – $340,000/year (USD)
We encourage you to apply
At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all to apply—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, political belief, or any other characteristic protected by law. Grammarly is an equal opportunity employer and a participant in the US federal E-Verify program (US). We also abide by the Employment Equity Act (Canada).
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