Senior Backend Engineer, IAM

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

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.

• Building 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.

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. 

• 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.

• 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.

This job posting may span more than one career level.

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. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

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