Senior Backend Engineer, IAM

at Reddit

📍 United States

USD 190,800-267,100 per year

SENIOR

✅ Remote

Tech Stack
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Details

Reddit is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer on its Identity and Access Management (IAM) team. The IAM team develops and maintains mission critical, highly performant, and highly scalable systems that manage user identity, authentication, and authorization for Reddit’s millions of daily users and backend services.

This is a fully remote role. Reddit has a flexible first workforce.

Responsibilities

In your day-to-day, you will:

Steer: Work with the team to select, scope, and drive high leverage projects that align with Reddit’s goals.
Build: Execute on a strategy and create a more performant, more scalable, higher quality architecture around authentication, authorization and identity.
Amplify: Mentor, coach, and collaborate with other technical contributors.
Collaborate: Work together with a variety of cross functional teams across Reddit Engineering.
Evolve: Learn and improve your own technical and non-technical abilities.

Requirements

5+ years of experience designing and developing large-scale distributed backend systems.
At least 2+ years focused on security-sensitive domains (IAM, Security, Privacy, or Anti-Abuse).
Technical understanding of core identity concepts, authentication protocols (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML), session management and/or authorization access models (ABAC, RBAC, ReBAC), centralized authorization engines.
Proficiency in one or more general purpose programming languages (preferably Go).
Experience with (or curiosity to learn about) essential cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS, GCP).
Experience identifying and driving high-impact projects that align with the company's strategy.
High empathy and excellent communication skills to collaborate across the organization.

Benefits

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
401k with Employer Match
Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
Family Planning Support
Gender-Affirming Care
Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
Generous Paid Parental Leave