Senior Backend Engineer, IAM

Reddit is a community of communities built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet's largest sources of information. This is a fully remote role.

About the role

The Identity and Access Management team develops and maintains a set of mission-critical, highly performant, and highly scalable systems that manage user identity, authentication, and authorization for all of our millions of daily users and backend services. Some of our 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.

As a senior engineer on this team, you'll be a technical coach and mentor. You'll draw on your technical expertise to ensure these systems have high uptime and strong performance while working with others to build a roadmap to match the needs of an ever-growing engineering organization.

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), 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

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $190,800—$267,100 USD. 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.