Senior Backend Engineer, IAM

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.

The Identity and Access Management team develops and maintains mission critical, highly performant, and highly scalable systems that manage user identity, authentication, and authorization.

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 identifying and driving high-impact projects that align with the company's strategy.
• High empathy and excellent communication skills to collaborate across the organization.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with (or curiosity to learn about) essential cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS, GCP).

Compensation

• Base salary range: $190,800—$267,100 USD.
• Eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units.
• Comprehensive benefits including healthcare, 401k with employer match, flexible vacation, parental leave, mental health support, and more.