Backend Engineer, IAM

Reddit is a community of communities, built on shared interests, passion, and trust. It hosts 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors.

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

• Build systems around consumer IAM 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 execute high-leverage projects aligned with Reddit’s goals.
• Create a more performant, scalable, and higher-quality architecture around IAM.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across Reddit Engineering.
• Learn and improve technical and non-technical abilities.

• 3+ years of experience designing and developing distributed backend systems.
• IAM backend experience in either authorization or authentication domain.
• Proficiency in one or more general purpose programming languages (preferably Go).
• Capability with essential cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS, GCP).
• High empathy and excellent communication skills.

Base salary range: $164,200—$229,900 USD. Eligible for equity in the form of restricted stock units. Benefits include comprehensive healthcare, 401k with employer match, flexible vacation, paid parental leave, and more.