Senior Backend Engineering

Reddit is a community of communities. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet's largest sources of information.

Identity & Access Management Team
The Identity and Access Management team develops and maintains 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.

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.

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: 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).

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.

Flexible vacation & paid volunteer time off.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission.

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

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