# Staff Software Engineer, Identity & Access Management

**Company**: Reddit
**Location**: Remote - United States
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $217,000-$303,900 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Reddit is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Identity & Access Management (IAM) team within the SPACE org (Security, Privacy, Assurance, and Corporate Engineering). The successful candidate will play a critical role in designing, delivering, and supporting the lifecycle of digital identities, authentication, and access across Reddit.

The IAM team is responsible for modernizing the identity infrastructure, providing self-service identity management lifecycle, and integrating Reddit's corporate identity stack across various protocols.

Key responsibilities include:

- Engineering & Integration: Developing, scaling, and maintaining Reddit's core IAM internal identity capabilities, platforms, and infrastructure.

- Observability & Data Analytics: Building proactive monitoring frameworks, executive-friendly dashboards, and advanced alerting.

- Process & Compliance: Creating and maintaining documentation, audit logs, and reports to continuously improve business processes and ensure seamless compliance execution.

- Operations & Support: Troubleshooting complex production incidents, analyzing failure conditions, and performing root-cause analysis.

- Collaboration & Mentorship: Guiding global, cross-functional partners on IAM best practices.

The team uses a diverse and modern technology stack, including languages such as Go, Python, Java, TypeScript, SQL, and datastores like Postgres, Directory architectures (e.g., LDAP).

Requirements include:

- 10+ years of backend development experience across multiple layers of the stack.

- In-depth knowledge of corporate IAM experience covering the full workforce identity lifecycle.

- Ability to design and implement complex distributed systems operating under high load.

- Proficiency in core stack: Go, Python, Java, or TypeScript, with a strong DevOps mindset and end-to-end code ownership.

- Deep understanding of modern authentication protocols (OAuth, OIDC, SAML) and secure-by-design principles.

Benefits include comprehensive healthcare benefits, income replacement programs, 401k with employer match, global benefit programs, flexible vacation, and paid volunteer time off.

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- Python
- Java
- TypeScript
- SQL
- Postgres
- LDAP
- OAuth
- OIDC
- SAML

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