Senior Backend Engineer, IAM

Details

Reddit's Identity and Access Management 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.

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

Responsibilities

• Build systems around authentication, authorization, and identity to meet the needs of Reddit's engineering organization and millions of daily users.
• Design, build, and ship backend services powering experiences for one of the most visited sites in the world.
• Work with product management, security, client engineering, and backend teams to define and implement Reddit's IAM vision and roadmap.
• Select, scope, and drive high-leverage projects aligned with Reddit's goals.
• Execute on strategies and create more performant, scalable, and higher-quality architectures around authentication, authorization, and identity.
• Mentor, coach, and collaborate with other technical contributors.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across Reddit Engineering.
• Continue developing technical and non-technical abilities.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience designing and developing large-scale distributed backend systems, including at least 2+ years focused on security-sensitive domains such as IAM, security, privacy, or anti-abuse.
• Technical understanding of core identity concepts, authentication protocols including OAuth2, OIDC, and SAML, session management, and authorization access models including ABAC, RBAC, and ReBAC.
• Familiarity with centralized authorization engines.
• Proficiency in one or more general-purpose programming languages, preferably Go.
• Experience with, or curiosity to learn about, cloud infrastructure including Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS, and GCP.
• Experience identifying and driving high-impact projects aligned with company strategy.
• High empathy and excellent communication skills for collaboration across the organization.

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs.
• 401(k) with employer match.
• Global benefit programs covering workspace, professional development, and caregiving support.
• Family planning support.
• Gender-affirming care.
• Mental health and coaching benefits.
• Flexible vacation and paid volunteer time off.
• Generous paid parental leave.

Compensation

The base salary range for this position is $190,800–$267,100 USD. The role is also eligible for equity in the form of restricted stock units and, depending on the position offered, may be eligible to receive a commission. Final offer amounts may vary based on skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses or credentials.

Reddit is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans.