# Senior Backend Engineer, IAM

**Company**: Reddit
**Location**: Remote - United States
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $190,800-$267,100 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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.

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.

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

The base salary range for this position is: $190,800-$267,100 USD

## Skills

### Required
- large-scale distributed backend systems
- security-sensitive domains
- IAM
- Security
- Privacy
- Anti-Abuse
- authentication protocols
- OAuth2
- OIDC
- SAML
- session management
- Authorization access models
- ABAC
- RBAC
- ReBAC
- centralized authorization engines
- general-purpose programming languages
- Go
- cloud infrastructure
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
- AWS
- GCP

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