Reddit: Backend Engineer, IAM
Headquarters: Remote - United States
Work Model: Remote-friendly (Reddit has a flexible first workforce)
About Reddit
Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.
The Role
The Identity and Access Management (IAM) 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.
Challenges
- Building 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.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities
- Steer: Work with the team to select, scope, and execute on 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 IAM.
- XFN Collaboration: Work together with a variety of cross-functional teams across Reddit Engineering.
- Evolve: Learn and improve your own technical and non-technical abilities.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience designing and developing distributed backend systems.
- IAM backend experience in either the 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 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 Transparency
The base salary range for this position is: $164,200 – $229,900 USD.
Note: 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. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials.
To learn more about benefits, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.
Additional Information
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