Lead Platform Engineer, Identity & Access

Description

Webflow is the agentic web marketing platform for modern marketing teams, helping organizations build, manage, and optimize high-performing web experiences that drive predictable growth and strengthen brand trust. Building at Webflow will need grit, because we move fast, without ever sacrificing craft or quality.

Webflow is looking for a Lead Platform Engineer, Identity & Access to own how our workforce, devices, and automations authenticate and get access to what they need. Okta is our primary identity platform, and you’ll take it from a tool that works to a platform that is deliberately architected, governed, and easy to build on.

You’ll partner extensively with Security on policy, risk, and detection, bringing the engineering depth to turn their requirements into systems that run reliably. Making access safe by default without slowing people down is the central challenge of the role.

About the role:

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years in identity, platform, or infrastructure engineering, including ownership of a workforce identity platform at meaningful scale
• Deep hands on experience architecting an enterprise identity provider, with Okta strongly preferred
• Fluency in SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, and SCIM, including debugging at the token and assertion level
• Experience with identity governance, including RBAC design, HRIS driven lifecycle automation, and meeting audit requirements
• Strong grounding in Zero Trust and identity based attacks, including device trust and the security of non human identities
• Scripting ability (Python, JavaScript, or similar) and infrastructure as code experience, such as Terraform
• Clear communication with senior and executive audiences, including driving architecture decisions
• Nice to have: experience governing identities for AI tools and agents, and Okta certifications
• You’ll thrive as a Lead Platform Engineer, Identity & Access if you:
• Design like an attacker, asking how every control could fail or be abused, and respect that one policy change can lock out the whole company
• Get results with Security, HR, and application owners through influence, not authority
• Care as much about adoption as correctness
• Bring order to an under managed environment without waiting for a perfect plan
• Use AI tools with good judgment
• Are comfortable as the lead identity expert, mentoring others and setting the standard
• Stay curious and open to growth — demonstrating a proactive embrace of AI, and actively building and applying fluency in emerging technologies to elevate how we work, drive faster outcomes, and expand collective impact.
• Our Core Behaviors
• Build lasting customer trust. We build trust by taking action that puts customer trust first.
• Win together. We play to win, and we win as one team. Success at Webflow isn't a solo act.
• Reinvent ourselves. We don't just improve what exists, we imagine what's possible.
• Own it all the way. We move fast because the moment demands it, and we hold ourselves accountable to deliver outcomes — for each other, and for customers.

Conditions

Full-time

Permanent

Exempt

The cash compensation for this role is tailored to align with the cost of labor in different geographic markets. We've structured the base pay ranges for this role into zones for our geographic markets, and the specific base pay within the range will be determined by the candidate’s geographic location, job-related experience, knowledge, qualifications, and skills.

United States (all figures cited below are in USD and pertain to workers in the United States)

Zone A: $232,000 - 290,000

Zone B: $217,600 - 272,000

Zone C: $204,800 - 256,000

This role is also eligible to participate in Webflow's company-wide bonus program. Target amounts are a percentage of base salary and vary by career level. Payouts are based on company performance against established financial and operational goals.

Please visit our Careers page for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.

Application Information:

Application deadline: applications accepted on an ongoing basis until position is closed and filled

This posting is for a new position

Reporting to the Senior Director, Information Technology

As a Lead Platform Engineer, Identity & Access, you’ll:

Own the identity architecture and roadmap for workforce identity, with Okta as the core platform, including build versus buy decisions

Bring our Okta tenant under proper management, with configuration standards, hardening, change control, and configuration as code (Terraform, APIs, Okta Workflows, or scripts where the platform falls short)

Automate the identity lifecycle from joiner to leaver, using our HRIS as the source of truth and SCIM to downstream applications

Build paved roads for application onboarding, including standard SSO patterns, provisioning templates, and federated access to our cloud and source control platforms, so app owners can integrate without platform team involvement

Design the access model: role based access control (RBAC), least privilege, request and approval workflows, and access reviews, with tooling that answers “who has access to what, and why” and produces audit evidence automatically

Strengthen how access is granted through phishing resistant MFA, device trust and risk signals, and governed non human identities (service accounts, tokens, OAuth grants, and AI tools and agents), and stream identity telemetry to Security for detection and response

Serve as the top escalation point and primary responder for identity incidents and outages should they arise, including on call coverage for critical identity services, post incident reviews, and log analysis with Security

Manage the Okta vendor relationship, licensing, and cost

Benefits

• Ownership in what you help build. Every permanent Webflower receives equity (RSUs) in our growing, privately held company.
• Health coverage that actually covers you. Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans for full-time employees and their dependents, with Webflow covering most premiums.
• Support for every stage of family life. 12 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents and 6+ weeks of additional paid leave for birthing parents. Plus inclusive care for family planning, menopause, and midlife transitions.
• Time off that’s actually off. Flexible vacation, paid holidays, and a sabbatical program to help you recharge and come back inspired.
• Wellness for the whole you. Access to mental health resources, therapy and coaching.
• Invest in your future. A 401(k) with 100% employer match (up to $6,000/year) in the U.S., and support for retirement savings globally.
• Monthly stipends that flex with your life. Localized support for work and wellness expenses — from Wi-Fi to workouts.
• Bonus for building together. All full-time, permanent, non-commission employees are eligible for our annual WIN bonus program.
• Temporary employees may be eligible for paid holiday and time off, statutory leaves of absence, and company-sponsored medical benefits depending on their Fixed Term Contract and their country/state of employment.
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• Please note:
• To join Webflow, you'll need a valid right to work authorization depending on the country of employment.