Backend Engineer, IAM

Some of our present and future challenges include:

• 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.

In your day-to-day, you will:

• 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.

Who you might be:

• 3+ years of experience designing and developing distributed backend systems
• IAM backend experience in either 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.