Senior Backend Engineer, IAM

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. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . This is a fully remote role. Reddit has a flexible first workforce. 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. 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, authorizat…