Senior Backend Engineer, IAM

Some of our present and future challenges include:

• Building systems around authentication, authorization and identity 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.

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.

In your day-to-day, you will:

• 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.

Who you might be:

• 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.