Senior Backend Engineer, IAM

Details

Reddit is a community of communities built on shared interests, passion, and trust. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information.

This is a fully remote role for candidates based in the United States. Reddit has a flexible-first workforce.

About the team

The Identity and Access Management (IAM) team develops and maintains mission-critical, highly performant, and highly scalable systems that manage user identity, authentication, and authorization for millions of daily users and backend services.

Some present and future challenges include:

• Building systems around authentication, authorization, and identity to meet the needs of Reddit’s engineering organization and millions of daily users.
• Designing, building, and shipping backend services powering experiences for one of the most visited sites in the world.
• Working with product management, security, client engineering, and backend teams to define and implement Reddit’s IAM vision and roadmap.

Responsibilities

• 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, with 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), and 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.
• 401(k) with employer match.
• Global benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support.
• Family planning support and gender-affirming care.
• Mental health & coaching benefits.
• Flexible vacation & paid volunteer time off.
• Generous paid parental leave.

Pay Transparency

• Base salary range for this US-based position: $190,800 - $267,100 USD per year.
• In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission.
• Final offers are determined by multiple factors including skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials.

Interview recording & candidate privacy

• In select roles and locations, interviews may be recorded, transcribed, and summarized by AI; candidates will have an opportunity to opt out prior to any scheduled interviews.
• During the interview, Reddit may collect identifiers, professional and employment-related information, sensory information (audio/video), and any other categories of personal information the candidate chooses to share. Recordings will be deleted promptly after making a hiring decision. See Reddit's Candidate Privacy Policy for details.

Equal opportunity

• Reddit is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in its job application procedures.