Senior Backend Engineer, IAM
About The Position
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 Reddit's millions of daily users and backend services. This role is fully remote and part of Reddit's flexible-first workforce. The team addresses challenges such as building systems for authentication, authorization, and identity to meet the needs of Reddit’s engineering organization and millions of daily users, designing and building backend services for one of the most visited sites in the world, and collaborating with product management, security, client engineering, and backend teams to define and implement Reddit’s IAM vision and roadmap. As a senior engineer, you will be a technical coach and mentor, ensuring high uptime and strong performance of these systems, and contributing to a roadmap that supports an ever-growing engineering organization.
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.
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.
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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